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Towards Balancing Power in Domestic Violence Relationships Rejoinder
Author(s) -
Shaw Elisabeth,
Pye Sheena
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1995.tb01056.x
Subject(s) - disadvantage , domestic violence , power (physics) , position (finance) , project commissioning , publishing , psychology , work (physics) , social psychology , public relations , sociology , criminology , political science , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , law , engineering , business , medicine , medical emergency , mechanical engineering , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
Based on four years of extensive work on domestic violence issues with both survivors and perpetrators within their Family Safety Program, the authors argue that Wileman and Wileman's suggestion that women could learn skills to “effect positive change” in their relationships is both inappropriate and potentially dangerous. We further argue that to label such “skills” as “empowering” merely endorses a stance that is “more of the same” for the woman. That is, the woman may only learn more about taking responsibility for change, which is a position in which she is already well entrenched, often to her ultimate disadvantage.