Table of Contents

Foreword - Lenore Walker
Introduction - Michele Bograd
Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF RESEARCH
Political and Methodological Debates in Wife Abuse Research - Kersti Yllö
Research as Social Action - R Emerson Dobash and Russell P Dobash
The Struggle for Battered Women
Fear of Crime and the Myth of the Safe Home - Elizabeth A Stanko
A Feminist Critique of Criminology
PART TWO: FEMINIST RESEARCH
Wife Abuse, Husband Abuse, or Mutual Combat? A Feminist Perspective on the Empirical Findings - Daniel G Saunders
How Women Define Their Experiences of Violence - Liz Kelly
Why do Men Batter Their Wives? - James Ptacek
On the Relationship between Wife-Beating and Child Abuse - Lee H Bowker, Michelle Arbitell and J Richard Mc Ferron
PART THREE: RETHINKING CLINICAL APPROACHES
Treatment Models of Men Who Batter - David Adams
A Profeminist Analysis
Battered or Schizophrenic? Psychological Tests Can't Tell - Lynne Bravo Rosewater
Survivors of Terror - Dee L R Graham, Edna Rawlings and Nelly Rimini
Battered Women, Hostages and the Stockholm Syndrome
Beyond the 'Duty to Warn' - Barbara Hart
A Therapist's 'Duty to Protect' Battered Women and Children
Not so Benign Neglect - Demie Kurtz and Evan Stark
The Medical Response to Battering
PART FOUR: BUILDING BRIDGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, ACADEMICS AND ACTIVISTS
Collaborative Feminist Research and Myth of Objectivity - Lee Ann Hoff
Integrating Feminist Theory and Practice - Ellen Pence and Melanie Shepard
The Challenge of the Battered Women's Movement
Building Bridges between Activists, Professionals and Researchers - Susan Schecter