Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Speak Out

by Elisabeth Beattie, Mary Angela Shaughnessy, L Elisabeth Beattie, et al.

Book Overview

" In 1995 Kentucky governor Brereton Jones granted parole to ten women who had been convicted of killing, conspiring to kill, or assaulting the men who had abused them for years. The media began referring to them as the ""Sisters in Pain,"" a name they embraced. These are their stories. L. Elisabeth Beattie and Mary Angela Shaughnessy's interviews of seven of the Sisters in Pain detail the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse they suffered at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813121515
• ISBN13: 9780813121512
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"