Battered wives or dependent mothers? Negotiating familial ideology in law - Kodikara C.

More than a decade after its passing, Sri Lanka's Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA) remains a remedy of last resort for female survivors of intimate partner violence, as there is little support to take on a rights-defined identity as a battered wo...
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