The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Social ProblemsPublished 1 February 1982
Kathleen J. Tierney
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Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
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