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You Can Be Free: An Easy-To-Read Handbook for Abused Women
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Product Description
Newly revised and updated, this bestselling and indispensable guide is straightforward, sensible, and empathetic. With practical and gently guidance, the authors help women work towards building relationships that are healthier and, most importantly, safer. Added chapters include information specifically for deaf women, immigrant women, rural women, women with disabilities, and women with children. "
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #100685 in Books
- Published on: 2006-01-06
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 150 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This comprehensive handbook, written in a style easily read and understood, is a simplified version of NiCarthy's best seller Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships ( LJ 8/82; 1986. 2d ed.). Analysis of why men batter and why women stay in abusive relationships is interwoven with specific steps to be taken when leaving, getting counseling, preparing to prosecute, seeking shelter, finding employment, and validating one's self-worth. The use of "activity lists" in which the reader is asked to respond to questions makes the woman an active participant in analyzing and resolving her situation. This participatory technique, the simple writing style, and the authors' focus on the abused woman herself makes this an extremely useful sourcebook. Recommended for public libraries.
- Frada L. Mozenter, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ingram
Be Free is written in an accessible style for women with basic reading skills. It covers a wide range of topics designed to help women in crisis: how to identify different types of abuse, where to go for emergency shelter, how to get help from professionals such as police, lawyers, and counselors, and how to cope with children and family. "An extremely useful sourcebook."--Library Journal.
About the Author
Ginny NiCarthy has written many books dealing with the issue of violence against women. Her work to end abuse began in 1972 as founder and director of Rape Relief in Seattle. She later founded and directed the Abused Women's Network. She lives in Seattle.
