Wife-battering is a term encompassing all women who are abused in one form or another. The word speaks truth about the growing evidence of violence is women's homes. If men can abuse women, then surely women can abuse men. And society in its twisted quest to make things equal yet keep them unbalanced created the term spousal abuse. If women want equality, then equality in battering and politically correct terms will arise.
Women are subject to abuse regardless of race or class.
My husband shot me twice but was so drunk he missed me. I locked myself in the bathroom and crawled out the window. I ran through a field in knee-deep snow with no shoes on. The neighbors took me to the hospital. Her story continued with a psychiatrist declaring her as paranoid.