The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women's Shelter

Authors

Susan B. Murray, San Jose State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1988

Publication Title

National Women’s Studies Association Journal

Volume

1

Issue Number

1

First Page

75

Last Page

92

Disciplines

Sociology

Abstract

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.

Comments

Copyright © 1988 Abex Publishing Corporation. This article first appeared in NWSA Journal (now Feminist Formations) 1:1 (1988), 75-92. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Recommended Citation

Susan B. Murray. "The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women's Shelter" National Women’s Studies Association Journal (1988): 75-92.