TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Women's strategies for survival: Developing agency in abusive relationships
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Lempert, Lora Bex
SP  - 269
EP  - 289
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
N2  - The simultaneity of love and violence in the lived experiences of abused women forms the context within which these women construct meaning and develop agency. Utilizing grounded theory methodology (Glaser, 1978; Glaser and Strauss, 1967; Strauss, 1987; Strauss and Corbin, 1990), this paper explicates these agentic processes by analyzing the strategies employed by 32 abused women, publically and privately, to mitigate the violence and its effects. By highlighting the contradictory duality in these relationships, the processes by which abused women strategize and develop agency to halt, change, and/or cope with the violence becomes analytically salient.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02336945
ID  - ref1
ER  -