A Sociologist’s Perspective on Domestic Violence: A ...

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described the term “domestic violence”? A. Well, the standard definition of domestic violence in the battered women’s movement has been what I call “intimate terrorism,” the kind of violence in which men control “their women” using a variety of coercive control tactics, including physical and sexual violence.

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