Despite numerous studies that report the preponderance of domestic violence is perpetrated
by men against women, other empirical studies suggest that rates of domestic violence by�…

During the early years of the women's movement, Weisstein (1968/1993) declared that
“psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, what they need and what�…

Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual
harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have�…

This paper suggests a conceptual framework for understanding the processes of help‐
seeking among survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). A cognitive theory from general�…

Violence against women has received increasing public attention over the past 20 years.
The once taboo subjects of rape and wife battering are now discussed openly on talk shows�…

This is the fully revised and updated Third Edition of one of the top books on domestic
violence. Eve S Buzawa and Carl G Buzawa have incorporated a wealth of new empirical�…

Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective sometimes applied to viewing the emotional
and developmental risks to battered children, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact�…

Marian Meyers explores evidence that shows that news coverage in North American cities
routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently from the way it depicts�…

It is well recognized that the battering of female partners is a significant health problem that
affects at least 4.4 million women in this country each year according to a recent national�…

An intensive community-based advocacy intervention was designed and evaluated by
randomly assigning 278 battered women to an experimental or control condition�…