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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Speak Out

Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Speak Out

Lapinta, Linda Elisabeth
Shaughnessy, Mary Angela

Hardcover

AbuseGeneral LawWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0813121515
ISBN13: 9780813121512
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jul 20 2000
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

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 understand the interconnected strands of abuse that make just living through another day a personal triumph.

Beattie and Shaughnessy address the pervasive nature of domestic violence in America and explore the legal ramifications of fighting back. Their interviews with the Sisters in Pain reveal the ways in which these women have picked up the pieces of their shattered lives and learned to face the future.

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