Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Speak Out

" 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. L. 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, batter

Author: Linda Elisabeth Lapinta, Mary Angela Shaughnessy
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/20/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.26w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780813121512

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 1154

About the Author
Lapinta, Linda Elisabeth: - Linda Elisabeth LaPinta is associate professor of English at Elizabethtown Community College and the editor of Conversations with Kentucky Writers.

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