Suggested reading
for battered women

• Fortune, Marie. Keeping the Faith: Questions and Answers for the Abused Woman. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
  
  
• Levy, B. Dating Violence. Washington: The Seal Press, 1991.
  
  
• Lobel, Kerry, ed. Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1986.
  
  
• NiCarthy, Ginny. Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1982.
  
  
• NiCarthy, Ginny. The Ones Who Got Away: Women Who Left Abusive Partners. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1982.
  
  
• NiCarthy, Ginny. You Can Be Free. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1989.
  
  
• Schechter, Susan and Ann Jones. When Love Goes Wrong - What To Do When You Can't Do Anything Right: Strategies for Women With Controlling Partners. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
  
  
• White, Evelyn C. Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women Dealing with Physical and Emotional Abuse. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1985.
  
  
• Zambrano, Myrna M. Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompanada: Para la Mujer Golpeada/For the Latina in an Abusive Relationship. (Bilingual Spanish/English). Seattle: The Seal Press, 1985.
  
  

General

• Breckman, Risa S. and Ronald D. Adelman. Strategies for Helping Victims of Elder Mistreatment. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1988.
  
  
• Horton, Ann and Judith Williamson. Abuse and Religion: When Praying Isn’t Enough. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1988.
  
  
• Jones, Ann. Next Time, She’ll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop It. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
  
  
• Russell, Diana E.H. Rape in Marriage. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

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