Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Fight Back

.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.Linda 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 the hands of their husbands or boyfriends, battery beyond comprehension. Anyone who has ever asked, “Why don’t they just leave?” will come to understand the interconnected strands of abuse that make just living through another day a personal triumph.Beattie and Shaughnessy address the pervasive nature of domestic violence in America and explore the legal ramifications of fighting back. Their interviews with the Sisters in Pain reveal the ways in which these women have picked up the pieces of their shattered lives and learned to face the future.Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Fight Back is written by Linda Elisabeth LaPinta; Mary Angela Shaughnessy and published by The University Press of Kentucky. ISBNs for Sisters in Pain are 9780813157320, 0813157323 and the print ISBNs are 9780813121512, 0813121515. Additional ISBNs include 9780813189536, 9780813127095.