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Managing Violence against Women in the Face of Unequal Gender Power Relations: A review of recent feminist accounts of violence in families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Wendy Weeks
Wendy Weeks*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne
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Children Australia , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , 1992 , pp. 32 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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