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Perceptive differences on domestic violence against women
Perceptive differences on domestic violence against women

Author(s): Ioana-Anisa Atudorei
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: domestic violence; “emotional blackmail”; physical abuse; sexual abuse; moral emotions

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the perceptive differences on domestic violence against women. These perceptive differences refer to the moral emotions that both specialists and non specialists believe that social actors should experience when they commit an abuse qualified as an act of domestic violence against women. The purpose of this research was on one side to identify the potential perceptive differences of these moral emotions, materialized as feelings of embarrassment, shame and guiltiness and on the other side to identify any perceptive differences as far as women’ myths go.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 87-92
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English