“Everybody Makes Choices”

Author:

Dunn Jennifer L.1,Powell-Williams Melissa1

Affiliation:

1. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Abstract

Semistructured interviews with 32 domestic violence victim advocates illuminate how advocates explain “battered women who stay.” The interviews show that this behavior is a source of great frustration for advocates, who struggle to simultaneously conceive of battered women as victims trapped by social, psychological, and interactional forces and as agents whose choices must be respected. The authors argue that their organizational subculture and the culture of individualism in the contemporary United States do not provide the ideological and linguistic resources necessary for managing this dilemma. This results in a tendency to overemphasize battered women's choice and thereby diminish the constraints they face.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Sociology and Political Science,Gender Studies

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