Dunn Jennifer L, Powell-Williams Melissa
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2007 Oct;13(10):977-1001. doi: 10.1177/1077801207305932.
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.
对32名家庭暴力受害者权益倡导者进行的半结构化访谈揭示了倡导者如何解释“受虐妇女为何留下来”这一现象。访谈表明，这种行为让倡导者深感挫败，他们努力同时将受虐妇女视为受社会、心理和互动力量所困的受害者，以及其选择必须得到尊重的行为主体。作者认为，他们所在组织的亚文化以及当代美国的个人主义文化，并未提供应对这一困境所需的思想和语言资源。这导致一种倾向，即过度强调受虐妇女的选择，从而忽视她们所面临的限制。
