This book takes as its operating premise that violence against women is prevalent throughout the world, that intimate violence is an important aspect of the bro

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of fe

Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to prote

Brave, humane, and generous . . . still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country. --Member of British

In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in establishing self-