Abstract
This article responds to Fran Danis and Lettie Lockhart's editorial in theSummer 2003 Journal of Social Work Education (Vol. 29, No. 2), which questionsthe disconnect between the battered women's movement and the social workprofession regarding knowledge and practices related to domestic violence. Theauthor examines how two factors might influence responses to violence againstwomen: the use of language in the social work discourse and the reluctance touse research to guide social work knowledge and practice. The ways in whichthese two factors guide social work's ideology about violence against womenand, in turn, its focus on individual pathology and treatment and away fromsocial context, social justice, and community organization are explored.
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