Challenging "Battered Woman Syndrome"

Literary Review of Canada | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Challenging "Battered Woman Syndrome" A researcher and practitioner says feminism put up a smokescreen around the problem. ELSPETH CAMERON Rethinking Domestic Violence Donald G. Dutton University of British Columbia Press 415 pages, softcover ISBN 9780774810159

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 (1979), which described the ...

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