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Title:      Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay: Toward a Constructivist Model
Authors:      Einat Peled, Zvi Eisikovits, Guy Enosh & Zeev Winstok
ISBN-10(13):      ODVN
Publisher:      National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Publication date:      2000
Language:      English
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This article examines individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through critical examination of trhe images of batteres women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights.