Battered Wives: The Home as a Total Institution
Battered Wives: The Home as a Total Institution
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受虐妻子：家庭作为一个整体机构
DOI：
10.1891/0886-6708.6.2.137
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发表时间：
1991
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Noga Avni
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作者：
Noga Avni
这篇论文是基于从现象学的角度考察以色列受虐妇女的生活的研究。35个非结构化访谈是在一个被虐待妇女收容所进行的。妇女的陈述表明，受虐妇女的情况类似于Goffman(1961)所界定的所有机构的囚犯的情况。身体上的障碍强加在他们身上，他们在结婚后不久就经历了自我屈辱的过程。强制将自己禁闭在房子里会损害自我，降低应对能力。此外，它还切断了妇女获得物质帮助和精神支持的外部来源。更多地了解这一严酷的现实将使从事帮助受虐待妇女的社会机构受益。
This paper is based on research which examined the lives of Israeli battered women from the phenomenological aspect. Thirty-five unstructured interviews were carried out in a shelter for battered women. The women’s accounts suggest that the situation of battered women resembles that of inmates of total institutions, as defined by Goffman (1961). Physical barriers are imposed upon them, and they go through a process of mortification of the self which begins soon after the marriage. Compulsory confinement to the house damages the self and diminishes the ability to cope. Furthermore, it cuts the women off from external sources of physical help and moral support. Increased understanding of this harsh reality would benefit the social agencies engaged in helping battered women.