Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health

PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Medicine and Patriarchal Violence Imagining Woman Battering Social Knowledge, Social Theory and Patriarchal Benevolence PART TWO: HEALTH CONSEQUENCES Women and Children at Risk A Feminist Perspective on Child Abuse Killing the Beast Within Woman Battering and Female Suicidality Preventing Gendered Homicide PART THREE: CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS Personal Power and Institutional Victimization Treating the Dual Trauma of Woman Battering Clinical Violence Intervention Lessons from Battered Women Discharge Planning with Battered Woman Physicians and Domestic Violence Challenges for Prevention