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Women Escaping Violence

Women Escaping

Violence

E M P O W E R M E N T

T H R O U G H

N A R R A T I V E

Elaine J. Lawless

University of Missouri Press

Columbia and London

University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Printed and bound in the United States of America

5 4 3 2 1 05 04 03 02 01

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lawless, Elaine J.

Women escaping violence : empowerment through narrative / Elaine J. Lawless.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8262-1314-6 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8262-1319-7 (alk. paper)

1. Abused women—United States. I. Title.

HV6626.2 .L39 2001

362.82'92'0973—dc21

00-050795

This paper meets the requirements of the

American National Standard for Permanence of Paper

for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.

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Text design: Stephanie Foley

Jacket design: Vickie Kersey DuBois

Typesetter: BOOKCOMP, Inc.

Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.

Typefaces: Crackhouse, GilSans, and Minion

Two of the chapters in this book have appeared in different form as “Transformative Stories:

Women Doing Things with Words,” in

Journal of Applied Folklore

4, no. 1 (1999): 61–77,

and as “Transformative Re-membering: De-scribing the Unspeakable in Battered Women’s

Narratives,” in

Southern Folklore

57, no. 1 (1999): 65–79.