Leaving Abusive Partners: From the Scars of Survival to the Wisdom for Change

This moving book reshapes our understanding of the nature of woman abuse and makes a major contribution to a key issue for feminist campaigning and theory. The past 25 years of research on `battered′ women has focused on the psychological, sociological and political conditions which contribute to violence, and on women′s reasons for staying with violent and abusive partners. The author goes beyond the discourse of `victims′ and `survivors′ to offer new insights into the very specific and multifaceted nature of the abuses women experience - emotional as well as physical. Drawing on firsthand accounts, Kirkwood sheds new light both on the dynamics of abuse which afford abusers control over women and the resources and k

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kirkwood, Catherine

Mental Health

Sage Publications Ltd.

This moving book not only reshapes our understanding of the nature of woman abuse but makes a major contribution to a key issue for feminist campaigning and theory. The past 25 years of research on `battered' women has focused on the psychological, sociological and political conditions which contribute to violence, and on women's reasons for staying with violent and abusive partners. Drawing on firsthand accounts, the author goes beyond the discourse of 'victims' and `survivors' to offer new insights into the very specific and multifaceted nature of the abuses women experience - emotional as well as physical. Kirkwood sheds new light both on the dynamics of abuse which afford abusers control over women and the resources and knowledge women draw upon to re-empower themselves. Examining first the nature of abuse and then the issues confronted by a woman after she has left an abusive relationship, Kirkwood finds that women's experiences of society after leaving abusive partners are highly interrelated. She develops the concept of a `web' to explain how the different elements of abuse connect to make up the experiences of abused women. Essential reading for anyone concerned with understanding woman abuse, this book develops existing knowledge by fully exploring the emotional and practical struggles women confront in leaving abusive relationships and demonstrates how formerly abused women create a process of survival and personal change which extends into their experiences after leaving.

Cut Away is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. Alexandra is a transgendered woman who has refused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a trailer at the desolate Salton Sea. Asa, the mother of the runaway, wants her grief-ridden face completely transformed. Eleanor, a plastic surgeon, is fascinated with surfaces and wonders whether visual harmony has the power to change what lies beneath. In a culture obsessed with transforming the body, do the incarnate fictions we create have the power to hide or reveal the truth of who we really are? This is a question that Catherine Kirkwood approaches in a stunning debut novel of desire, self-loathing, and the revisionary madness of our modern world.

Cut Away

LGBTQ+ Books

Literature & Fiction

Arktoi Books

Cut Away: A Novel (Large Print 16pt)

ReadHowYouWant

This story is narrated by Rocky, a dog. He tells the tale of how his best friend Tula was lost and finally found due to his intuitive thinking. One night, frightened by fireworks, Tula scrambled over the fence in their family's backyard and dashed away. Rocky and the family spent many days looking for her, putting up posters and asking all over the neighborhood, but Tula was nowhere to be found. The problem was that they had only recently moved from Santa Fe to Miami Beach and Tula did not know the geography. When days of chasing down leads did not bring Tula home, Rocky had an idea. He suggested cutting up Tula's blanket and tying the pieces to bench legs and lamp posts so Tula could smell the trail home. IT WORKED. Tula came home to Rocky and a jubilant family.

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