- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Why battered women stay with their abusive partners, 1994
- Creator:
- Davis Mayweather, Sybil E.
- Date of Original:
- 1994-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This thesis examines the reasons why women remain with their abusive partners. The researcher defined the reasons women remain with their abusive partners into five categories: (1) learned helplessness; (2) resources; (3) institutional response; (4) traditional ideology; and (5) legal response. Data for this study were derived from literature from 1958 through 1993. Data are gathered under the following categories: (1) what is woman-battering, (2) domestic violence as a social problem, (3) theories of domestic violence, (4) why women remained with their abusive partner, (5) factors associated with wife abuse, and (6) responses to domestic violence. The researcher conceptualized reasons for women remaining with their abusive partner based on extant of research on family violence. The qualitative data in this study disclosed that many women remain with their abusive partners because: (a) they are afraid that their partners would retaliate; (b) they do not have the necessary financial resources to support themselves; or, (c) they have learned to cope with on-going abuse by suppressing their emotions and accepting a subordinate role. This thesis also outlines societal responses to battered women. Finally, this study includes recoxnmedations to improve the existing conditions of battered women.
Date of award: 5/1/1994
Degree type: thesis
Degree name: Master of Arts (MA)
Granting institution: Clark Atlanta University
Department: Department of Criminal Justice Administration
Advisor: Murty, K. S. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1994_davis_mayweather_sybil_e
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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