Ambivalence and paradox: the battered woman's interactions with the law and other helping resources
This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevent...
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Rhodes University
2001
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003127 |