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Author Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953- author.

Title Sisters in pain : battered women fight back / L. Elisabeth Beattie, Mary Angela Shaughnessy
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Politics, the Prison Quit, and Parole -- Sherry Pollard -- Karen Stout -- Teresa Gulley Hilterbrand -- Sue Melton -- Margie Marcum -- Tracie English -- Montilla Seewright -- Issues Related to Research, Reform, and the Law -- "Warning Signs for Women: Predictors of Violence in Men" and "Why She Stays, When She Leaves" -- Private Artifact to Public Act: "The Quilt as Accusatory Text" and "The Nineteenth-Century Diarist and Her Quilts" -- National Domestic Violence Organizations and Kentucky Spouse Abuse Centers
Summary Seven women discuss the physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse they suffered at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Abused women -- Kentucky -- Interviews
Wife abuse -- Kentucky
Abusive men -- Mortality -- Kentucky
Justifiable homicide -- Kentucky
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Abused women
Justifiable homicide
Wife abuse
Kentucky
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Shaughnessy, Mary Angela, author.
ISBN 9780813157320
0813157323