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Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
In addition to the methodology of new historicism, this article deploys feminism, performance studies and presentism to discuss the effects of the masculine practice of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Thomas Middleton's "Women Beware Women" and contemporary Palestine. I explain that Middleton's "Women…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Females, Males
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Sly, Dorothy I. – Guidance & Counselling, 1992
This article informs counselors about the changing position of Canadian churches and Biblical scholars with regard to wife abuse. Knowing of these advances, counselors can offer an alternative to victims who believe that the Christian response to partner abuse is silent submission; through reeducation, women can learn to empower themselves. (LKS)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Christianity, Church Role, Counseling Effectiveness
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Davis, Liane V. – Social Work, 1987
Traces changes in social workers' perspectives on the problem of wife abuse. Divides the changes into three time periods: discovering the problem (1976-79); consolidating the perspectives (1980-82); and transforming the problem of wife abuse (1983-84). Concludes increased focus on individual and couple treatment has deflected attention away from…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Battered Women, Counseling Theories, Counselor Attitudes