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Towards Phenomenological Theorizing About Old Women Abuse

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The purpose of this paper is to present a phenomenological conceptualization of violence against old battered women. This was done by using the concept of intentionality of body, time and space, heuristically. Data for the paper were drawn from a series of qualitative studies on the lived experiences of old battered women performed by the authors during the last 5 years. Interviews with old battered Israeli Jewish women aged 60 to 84, were used to substantiate our claims. Most were clients of social service agencies. Content analysis pointed to the uniqueness and depth of understanding that can be drawn from this kind of conceptualization and highlighted the need to listen to the voices of the women and to understand the highly complex situations arising from being old and battered.

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Band-Winterstein, T., Eisikovits, Z. Towards Phenomenological Theorizing About Old Women Abuse. Ageing Int 35, 202–214 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-010-9067-y

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