Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ506118
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Empowering Women: A Feminist Analysis of Self-Defense Courses.
Madden, Margaret E.; Sokol, Thomas J.
Initiatives, v56 n1 p23-28 1994
Critiques self-defense courses. Many of these courses ignore the fact that most violence against women occurs at home. Questions whether self-defense courses are genuinely empowering for women. States that programs may make individuals safer, but they do not reduce endemic violence in our communities. (CC)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Crime, Empowerment, Females, Personal Autonomy, Social Adjustment, Social Change, Victims of Crime
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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