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The impact of posttraumatic stress symptoms on quality of life among battered wives in India amidst the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Background: Battery against women has alarmingly escalated since the COVID-19 Pandemic, resulting in increase in post-traumatic stress disorder and negatively influenced their quality of life.
Joji Joseph, Rodel P. Canlas
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Narrative Length and Speech Rate in Battered Women. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Narrative length and speech rate of traumatic recollections have been previously associated with different emotions and adjustment trajectories after trauma. However, the evidence is limited and the results are mixed.
Violeta Fernández-Lansac, María Crespo
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BATTERED WOMEN AND THE REQUIREMENT OF IMMINENCE IN SELF-DEFENCE

open access: goldPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2013
Should the South African courts abolish the traditional imminence standard, something must be used to stand in its place. The identification of the various alternatives which have been suggested to replace imminence - most notably the establishment of ...
Samantha Goosen
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Battered Woman Syndrome: Prospect of Situating It Within Criminal Law in India

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2021
In patriarchal cultures, like the one prevalent in India, rigid, polarised and hierarchical gender roles work to establish a strong normative relationship between gender and the treatment of offenders committing violent crimes such as homicide.
A. Deb
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The Existential Psychological Crisis Among Battered Women to Non-Battered Women in the Republic of Yemen

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2022
The research deals with a very important issue that affects women, an important segment of the society. This is because women are the basis of the family and the pillar of the society. Thus, the aim of the research is to examine the level and dimensions
Ali Ahmed Wadi Hbash
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Spousal violence against women and its consequences on pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health of women in India

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Globally, one in three women experienced domestic violence. Alike the scenario observed in India, and a very few studies talk about violence and its consequences on women's health.
Mahadev Bramhankar, R. S. Reshmi
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Voldsramte migrantkvinder - Om køn, kultur og mandlig afmagt

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning, 1998
This article deals with the battered immigrant women's plight on leaving her batterer, especially when having no knowledge of Danish and no residence permit in her own right. Her encounter with the social welfare system and the police for aid and support
Britta Mogensen
doaj   +1 more source

As if living in a concentration camp: The experience of intimate partner violence as seen through the eyes of female victims [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2022
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the understanding of partner violence from the perspective of female victims. This study addresses intimate partner violence from a qualitative paradigm and a social constructivist approach.
Janković Ivana
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Barriers for administering primary health care services to battered women: Perception of physician and nurses

open access: yesAlexandria Journal of Medicine, 2011
Background: Violence against women is an important public-health problem that draws attention of a wide spectrum of clinicians. However, multiple barriers undermine the efforts of primary health care workers to properly manage and deal with battered ...
Eman H. Alsabhan   +4 more
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