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The Unhappy Marriage Of Theory And Practice: An Analysis Of A Battered Women's Shelter, Susan B. Murray

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Focuses on the role of battered women's shelters in the U.S. as a response to the problem of violence against women in society. Examination of the battered women's movement and the shelters the movement has spawned; Contradictions between feminist ideology and reality; Role of the shelter itself as a social world.