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Author Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953-

Title Sisters in pain : battered women fight back / L. Elisabeth Beattie, Mary Angela Shaughnessy.

Imprint Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, ©2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  362.82 BEA    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.8292 B369S    Check Shelf
Description xxix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Women's studies/criminal justice
Women's studies/criminal justice.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Abused women -- Kentucky -- Interviews.
Wife abuse -- Kentucky.
Abusive men -- Mortality -- Kentucky.
Justifiable homicide -- Kentucky.
Abused women. (OCoLC)fst00794870
Justifiable homicide. (OCoLC)fst00985239
Wife abuse. (OCoLC)fst01432118
Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
Genre/Form Interviews.
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Added Author Shaughnessy, Mary Angela.
Other Form: Online version: Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953- Sisters in pain. Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, ©2000 (OCoLC)652320257
ISBN 0813121515 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813121512 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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