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Sisters in Pain [electronic resource] : Battered Women Fight Back / L. Elisabeth Beattie, Mary Angela Shaughnessy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justifiable homicide--Kentucky.
- Justifiable homicide.
- Abusive men--Mortality--Kentucky.
- Abusive men.
- Wife abuse--Kentucky.
- Wife abuse.
- Abused women--Kentucky--Interviews.
- Abused women.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1995, Kentucky governor Brereton Jones granted parole to ten women who had been convicted of killing, conspiring to kill, or assaulting the men who had abused them for years. The media began referring to them as the ""Sisters in Pain,"" a name they embraced. These are their stories. Linda Elisabeth Beattie and Mary Angela Shaughnessy's interviews of seven of the Sisters in Pain detail the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse they suffered at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends, battery beyond comprehension. Anyone who has ever asked, ""Why don't they just leave?"" will come to und
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Politics, the Prison Quilt, and Parole; Sherry Pollard; Karen Stout; Teresa Gulley Hilterbrand; Sue Melton; Margie Marcum; Tracie English; Montilla Seewright; Epilogue; Appendix A: Issues Related to Research, Reform, and the Law; Appendix B: ""Warning Signs for Women: Predictors of Violence in Men"" and ""Why She Stays, When She Leaves""; Appendix C: Private Artifact to Public Act: ""The Quiltas Accusatory Text"" and ""The Nineteenth-Century Diarist and Her Quilts""
- Appendix D: National Domestic Violence Organizationsand Kentucky Spouse Abuse CentersBibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-8953-5
- 0-8131-5732-3
- OCLC:
- 900344674
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