Sisters in Pain
Subtitle: Battered Women Fight Back
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780813121512
Subjects: Domestic violence; Social welfare & social services; Women's studies; General; 20th century; Criminology; True Crime; Offenses Against Women; Sociology; Social Science; Mortality; USA; Abuse - General; Criminal Law - General; Women's Studies - General; Wife abuse; Abused women; Abusive men; Interviews; Kentucky
First sentence: It's no secret that as recently as the turn of the twentieth century women were schooled in such domestic arts as cooking and sewing, while, with few exceptions, academic disciplines remained the realm of men.