Challenging “Battered Woman Syndrome”
A researcher and practitioner says feminism put up a smokescreen around the problem January–February 2007
I opened Rethinking Domestic Violence with great interest. More than ten years ago I documented my own departure from an abusive marriage into a lesbian relationship in my memoir No Previous Experience. At that time I read about domestic abuse for the first time—notably Lenore Walker’s The Battered Woman …