Abortion rights, decision restricting, 76
Abuse Prevention Act (1978, Mass.), 36
Adultery, 161; forced confessions of, 120
Advocacy for Women and Kids in Emergencies (AWAKE), 228–29
Allen, Woody, 33
Almonor, Danielle, 144
Almonor, Max, 144
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 147
American Journal of Psychiatry, The, 179
American Medical Association (AMA), 145, 147–48; Council on Scientific Affairs of, 225–26; Journal, 146, 226
Amnesty International, 89, 92, 39–94, 184
Anger: and aggression, 110–11; in intimate relationships, 111–13; venting of, 108–9
Anthony, Ernest, 45
Antirape movement (1970s), 8
Anzalone, Sandra, 45
Arrests, in domestic assault cases, 157–59, 160; mandatory, 142, 158–59
Atwood, Margaret, 81
Balistreri, Jena, 45–57, 70, 74
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department (1988), 45–57, 59, 60, 62, 71, 74
Baltimore Sun, 120
Barber, Wayne, 75
Barnes, Bernadette, 104
Barthell, Helena, 178
Battered women’s movement, 12, 22, 82, 154, 159; achievements of, 7–15, 131; terminology adopted by, 83
“Battered women’s syndrome,” 102–3
Baumruk, Ken, 144
Baumruk, Mary, 144
Bayh, Evan, 44
Beauvoir, Simone de, 109; The Second Sex, 208
Bellevue Hospital (New York City), 171, 187
Benedict, Helen, Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes, 245
Bianco, Lisa Marie, 24–44, 119, 150
Biderman, Alfred D., 89
Bill of Rights, 18
Blackstone, William, 18
Bly, Robert, 98, 109; Iron John, 98
Bodily harm, freedom from, 81–19, 80, 128, 196, 209–10; and the law, 35, 36, 40, 48
Book-of-the-Month Club, 109, 114
Boston College, 136
Boston Phoenix, 47
Bowker, Lee H., 249
Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 159, 161
Britain, reaction of, to battery, 20–21
Brockton (Mass.) District Court, 143–44
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Family Court, 144
Brown, Mary Lee, 73
Browne, Angela, When Battered Women Kill, 245
Brownmiller, Susan, 176, 195; Against Our Will, 176
Bruno v. Codd (917), 25–53, 78, 141
Burgos v. Camareno, 72
Burke, Kevin, 45
Campbell, Jane, 47
Capitulation, 184
Cartier, Michael, 29, 46, 119–20, 127–28
Casolaro, Peter, 170
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, 243
Centers for Disease Control, 87, 146
Child abuse, 48–85, 180, 203, 211, 224, 228, 230–32
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, 165, 211
Child protection agencies, recommendations for, 228
Children’s Hospital (Boston), AWAKE at, 228
Civil Rights Act (1871), 51
Clergy, see Religion
Close, Glenn, 126
Cobbe, Frances Power, 13, 17, 81, 86, 203
Co–Dependent No More, 164
Coercion, chart of, 99–92, 93, 184
Coffman decision, 75
Collins, Gail, 175
Comfort, Alex, The New Joy of Sex, 108, 115
Concentration camp survivors, 89, 189
“Conflict Tactics Scale,” 154–55
Congressional Record, 165
Constitution, U.S., 27, 70, 77; Thirteenth Amendment to, 78; Fourteenth Amendment to, 51, 55–56, 62–65, 68
Control skills, 89
Court of Appeals: Third Circuit, 60; Fifth Circuit, 65, 66; Seventh Circuit, 63, 73; Ninth Circuit, 54, 56, 70; Tenth Circuit, 58
Cranston, Alan, 164
“Creation of danger,” concept of, 74
Criminal justice system, recommendations for, 219–25
Criminologists, on domestic violence, 156–60
Crisis intervention techniques, 140–41
Croff, William, 41
Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story, 49
Currie, Elliott, Confronting Crime: An American Challenge, 156, 157
Dahmer, Jeffrey, 118
DeShaney, Melody, 63
DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dep’t of Social Servs. (1989), 49, 26–65, 69–78 passim
DiGirolamo, Karla, 165
Dilleywackers Motorcycle Club, 151
Dinkins, David, 206
Ditter, David, 40
Dobash, R. Emerson, 155, 216; Violence Against Wives (with R. P. Dobash), 245
Dobash, Russell P., 156, 216; Violence Against Wives (with R. E. Dobash), 245
Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, 219–20
Domestic Violence Act, 164–65; New Jersey, 106; proposed, 82
Doogan, James, 40
Dostoevsky, Fëdor, 81
Douglas, David, 178
Douglas, Michael, 126
Drug addiction, 1
Due process clause, 73, 74, 75, 80; and Balistreri case, 56–57; and DeShaney case, 46–65, 70, 72; and Hynson case, 59–60
Duluth (Minn.) Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP), 99, 149, 219, 220
Dunn, Paul, 36
Eagan, Margery, 46
Eldridge, Ronnie, 165,
Elkhart (Ind.) Women’s Shelter, 43
Elliott, William, 42
Emerge (Boston), 88, 89, 92, 227
Entitlement, male sense of, 96–98
Equality, principle of perfect, 209
Equal protection clause, 15–52, 58, 61, 57–76, 80; and Balistreri case, 55, 56–57; and DeShaney case, 70, 72; and Hynson case, 59–60; and McKee case, 65, 67
Equal Rights Amendmen, 209
Experts, 163; studies by, 152–62 passim
Fairness doctrine, 162
Faludi, Susan, 165; Backlash, 16
Falwell, Jerry, 164
“Family Ideal,” 164
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, 165, 211
Farrow, Mia, 33
Fatal Attraction, 126
Fathers’ Rights movement, 32
FBI, 41, 67–77, 94, 105, 140; Uniform Crime Reports, 156–57
Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, 105
Femicide, 6
Feminism, 7, 83; backlash from, 165
Feminization of poverty, 201
Franklin, Benjamin, 144
French, Marilyn, 177, 200; The War Against Women, 16
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 8
Friend, Mytokia, 104
Gardner, Richard A., 33
Gelles, Richard, 154, 155; Intimate Violence (with M. Straus), 139, 162
Gilligan, Carol, 25
Gomez, Nekeya, 45
Grimm, Charmaine, 47
Grohoski, Joseph, 41
Guenther, David, 73–39, 40, 46
Guenther, Pamela, 73–39, 40, 46
Hardy, Thomas, 81
Harlow, Harry, 110
Healey, J. Dennis, 45
Health care for battered women, 145–49, recommendations for, 225–30
Hearst, Patty, 189
Helmreich, William B., 174
Herbert, Bob, 176
Herman, Judith Lewis, 82, 78–88, 94, 174, 186
HIV, 87
Hoffman, Jan, 47
Homicide: figures, 6–7; “self-help,” 101; women charged with, 102–5
Horton, Willie, 44
Hostages, 89, 94, 174, 189, 192; compared with battered women, 190–91
Hotlines, emergency, 6, 9, 241, 247
Households, female-headed, 99, 100
How to Be an Assertive (Not Aggressive) Woman in Life, in Love, and on the Job (J. Baer), 111
Hughes, Francine, 101–2, 103, 105, 134
Hughes, James “Mickey,” 102
Humphrey, Gordon, 165
Hunter, Blonde Cole, 47
Hydraulic theory of human behavior, 208
Hynson, Alesia, 96–60, 61, 07–71, 74
Hynson case, 60, 61, 62, 71, 74, 75
Individual action, recommendations for, 255–60
Injuries to women, physical, 87, 145–46
Institutional change, recommendations for, 211–19
International Association of Chiefs of Police, 141
Intimate Enemy, The (G. R. Bach and P. Wyden), 109, 110, 113
Jenson, Jim, 132–33, 135, 136, 166
Johnson, Joyce, 195
Johnson, Louis, Jr., 45
Jones, Ann, 133, 134; When Love Goes Wrong (with S. Schechter), 256
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 8
Journal of the American Medical Association, 146, 226
Judges: attitudes of, toward domestic violence, 62–27, 32, 143, 145; biases of, 43–35, 36; recommendations for, 221–23
Justice, Department of, 153
Kansas City, Kans., police department of, 75–58, 59
Kaplan, Kathleen, 100–101, 105
Kaplan, Morton (Jack), 100–101
Keen, Monte, 167
Keniston, Kenneth, 197
Key, Felix, 125
Killing of batterers by women, 101–5, 132
Kimmel, Michael, 116
King, Anne Marie, 178
King, Paul H., 36
Kinsey, Alfred, 116
Kistler, Darci, 115
Koop, C. Everett, 13, 147, 148
Kudelycz, Carol, 42
Ku Klux Klan, 51
Lardner, Kristin, 29, 46, 47, 119–20, 127
LaSalata, Anthony, 41
Launders, Michele, 175
Lawrence, D. H., 81
Lawyers, abused women’s need for, 224–25
Lay advocates, 220
Leaving, 95, 135–36; and blaming the victim, 131–32, 145
Legislation and policies, new, 247–48
Lerner, Harriet Goldhor, The Dance of Anger, 111, 112
Lessing, Doris, 81
Lindsey, Michael, 39
Losinski, Donald, 73
Lovering, Beth, 45
Lowery, Shirley, 144
Luster, Eddie, 71
Lutgen, Carol, 32
Lutgen, James, 32
Lying low, 95
Ly Thi Dang, 29
McCusker, John, 173
Macho justice, 24
McKenzie, Clifton, 106
MacKinnon, Catherine, 27
McNulty, Faith, The Burning Bed, 101–2
Mahoney, Martha R., 150
Mahoney, P. D., 34
“Make my day” law (Colo.), 37
Manion, Donna, 45
Manion, Gertrude, 45
Mann, Judy, 175
Martin, Carol, 135
Martin, Del, Battered Wives, 244
Martins, Peter, 115
Massachusetts Superior Court, 79
Mazzei, Rudolph, 41
Media, recommendations for, 244–47
Mediation, 30
Medical treatment, see Health care for battered women
Merkin, Daphne, 195
Mikulski, Barbara, 165
Mill, John Stuart, 12, 26, 209, 210
Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment, 158–59
Milwaukee Journal, 160
Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment, 141–42, 157–58
Miss Black Rhode Island, 123–24
Moral Majority, 164
Morgenthau, Robert, 175
Morrison, Toni, 81
Mount Holyoke College, 119
Munro, Alice, 81
National Association of Chiefs of Police, 9
National Center on Women and Family Law (New York City), 78
National Centers for Disease Control, 87, 146
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 153
National Domestic Violence Hotline, 241, 247
National Institute of Mental Health, 153, 154
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, 212, 235
NBC, 49
Nebraska Mental Health Clinic, 40
New Hampshire, University of, Family Violence Research Program, 154
New York City Ballet, 115
New York City Police Department, 125, 193
New York State Division for Women, 165
New York State Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence, 165
New York State Supreme Court, 118
New York Times, 44, 100–101, 125, 155, 202; and Hedda Nussbaum, 174, 176, 177, 196
New York Times Book Review, 197
Nguyen, Joanna, 44
Nguyen, Nancy, 44
Nguyen, Peter, 44
Novello, Antonia C., 148
Nussbaum, Hedda, 16, 167–68, 173–74, 180, 199; absence of help for, 192–94; assaults on, 168–69, 170–73, 186–90, 193–94, 197–98; culpability of, 176–77, 196; reactions to, 175–76, 178–79, 181, 195, 205, 210; her relationship with Steinberg, 182–86, 190, 191–92; testimony of, 174–75, 188–89; verdict on, 177–78
NWA (Niggas with Attitude), 118
Oates, Joyce Carol, 81
Office of Domestic Violence, federal, 139
Orders of protection, 13–32, 40–41, 57, 59, 134; murders of women with, 47; obligation of state in, 37–74, 75; recommendations for, 221
Owens, Joseph, 45
Pacifica, Calif., police department of, 54–57
“Parental Alienation Syndrome,” 33
Parks, Rosa, 14
Pathological transference, 189
Petrizzo, Joseph, 173
Pikul, Joseph, 32
Police: policies of, in domestic disturbances, 140, 141–42, 145, 157–58; power of discretion of, 141–42, 158; recommendations for, 220–21; training of, in crisis intervention, 140–41
Police Executive Research Forum, 141
Post-traumatic stress disorder, 1, 87–88; complex, 88
Prison: furlough system, 44; women serving time in, for killing batterers, 103–4, 105
Prosecution: failure to follow through with, 142–43, 145; recommendations for, 220–21
Prostitution, 85, 110, 205, 208
Protection from Abuse Act (1984, Pa.), 71, 74, 75
Psychiatrists, 161; victim-blaming by, 147
Psychological abuse, defined, 88
Quincy (Mass.) District Court, 144, 216
Random House, 171, 182, 187, 193
Rape, 8, 98–80, 85–86, 128; date, 79, 99, 227; euphemism for, 120; gang, 99; history of, 176; marital, 40, 86, 126; physical assault and, 145; previous views of, 126; stranger, 126; survivors of, 174; trial, Mike Tyson’s, 123–24
Raphael, Sally Jesse, 95
Ratliff, Clarence (“Rat”), 150–52
Ratliff, Olga, 151
Reagan, Ronald, 16, 59, 109, 139
Recommendations, 199–211; child protection agencies, 230–32; criminal justice system, 219–25; health-care system, 225–30; individual action, 255–60; institutional change, 211–19; media, 244–47; new legislation and policies, 247–48; religion, 242–44; research, 249–51; schools, 236–40
Redbook magazine, 42
Rehnquist, William H., 64
Religion, recommendations for, 242–44
Research: by “experts,” 152–62 passim; recommendations for, 249–51
Restraining orders, 26, 29, 35, 44–45, 71, 73; and Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department, 45–55, 57; failure to extend temporary, 143–44; recommendations for, 221; violations of, 53, 75, 221. See also Orders of protection
Russell, Diana E. H., Rape in Marriage, 245
Ryan, William, 136; Blaming the Victim, 136–38
Sabo, Mahlon, 53
St. Vincent’s Hospital (New York City), 170, 187–88
San Francisco Police Department, 14
Sarcofago, 118
Schaefer, William, 104
Schechter, Susan, 8, 156; When Loves Goes Wrong (with A. Jones), 256; Women and Male Violence, 7, 245
Schneider, Elizabeth M., 78, 224
Schools, recommendations for, 236–40
Scott v. Hart (1976), 141
“Self-Defeating Personality Disorder,” 161
Self-defense, 101, 102, 103, 104
Self-esteem, 88, 153, 162, 166
“Self-help” handbooks, 164
“Self-help homicide,” 101
Senate Judiciary Committee, 130
Separation assault, 150
Serial sexual killers, 86
Sexism, 52, 82, 139; legal and extralegal, 27; medical, 148
Sexual harassment, 16
Sexuality: aggression in, 108; love, and violence, 114–28 passim
Shelter(s), 9, 31, 164; movement, 156
Sherman, Lawrence, 141–42, 157–61
Shubow, Lawrence, 29
Singleton, Jean, 125
Sinthasomphone, Konerak, 118
Sisterhood Is Powerful (ed. R. Morgan), 7–8
Slavery, 11
Smith, James, 39
Smith, William French, 157
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 98
“Soft males,” 98
Songs, pop, violence in, 118–19
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 202, 203
Steinberg, Joel, 167, 169–70, 177, 181, 182, 196; assaults by, on Hedda Nussbaum, 168–69, 170–73, 186–90, 193–94, 197; and New York City Police, 193–94, 197; Nussbaum’s relationship with, 182–86, 190, 191–92; Nussbaum’s testimony about, 174–75; verdict on, 178, 197
Steinberg, Lisa, 175–76, 182, 185, 187, 192, 194–95; death of, 169, 170, 172, 173, 185, 196, 197
Steinberg, Mitchell, 173
Steinem, Gloria, 176; Revolution from Within, 17
Steinmetz, Suzanne, 154
Stinson, Juanita, 104
Stoltenberg, John, 122
Straus, Murray, 154, 155; Intimate Violence (with R. Gelles), 139, 162
Straw, Karen, 132–36, 143, 149, 162, 165–66
Submission vs. consent, 127
Sununu, John, 101
Supreme Court, U.S., 16, 49, 51, 52, 61, 76, 214; and DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dep’t of Social Servs., 62, 36–65, 69, 70, 77
Supreme Court of North Carolina, 20, 21
Symbionese Liberation Army, 189
Task Force on Family Violence, Attorney General’s, 142–43
Tavris, Carol, Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, 112
Terrorism, political, 82
Terrorists, 189
Thomas, Audrey, 47
Thurman, Charles “Buck,” 23, 05–51, 61, 129, 130
Thurman, Charles, Jr., 50, 51, 130
Thurman, Tracey, 35–54, 58, 59, 80, 143, 162; battering of, 23, 05–51, 149; and equal protection clause, 55; Dan Rather’s interview with, 50, 129–31; suit of, against police, 23, 95–50, 52, 61, 141; television drama about, 49
Thurman decision (1984), 49, 56, 57, 59, 62, 78; damages awarded in, 52, 53; and DeShaney case, 80; and equal protection clause, 60; and McKee court, 65
Torres, Juan, 45
Torrington, Conn., police department of, 05–51, 52, 53
Traumatic psychological infantilism, 189
Tremins, Joanne, 53
Underground railroad, 11
Van de Velde, Theodor H., Ideal Marriage, 107–8
Van Hai Huynh, 29
Victim Assistance programs, 143
Victim-blaming, 114, 144–45, 150, 164, 200, 207–8, 233; by academic researchers, 153–54; by counselors, 149; by criminal justice system, 145; by health care professionals, 148; by judges, 143, 145; and Hedda Nussbaum, 174–75, 180–81, 195, 197; by police, 142; by psychiatrists, 147; research by experts on, 160, 161–62, 231; William Ryan on, 136–38
Village Voice, The, 47
Violence, defined, 88
Violence Against Women Act (1991), 77, 130, 211, 212, 214, 245, 247
Voices of Women’s Liberation (ed. L. B. Tanner), 8
Wales, University of, Institute for the Study of Violence at, 155
Walker, Alice, 81
Walton, Charlie, 40
Warshaw, Carole, 146
Washington, Patricia, 104
Washington Post, 175
Waters, Laughlin E., 57
Watkins, Kimberly, 45
Watkins, Pamela, 45
Watson, Ed, 58
Webster decision, 76
Weinstein, Burton, 49
Weld, William, 46
Weller, Sheila, 42
“Wife-Beater’s Wife, The” (Snell, Rosenwald, and Robey), 138–39, 147
Wilson, Pa., Police Department, 74–75
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 13
Women’s movement (1960s), 8, 82
Women Who Love Too Much, 164
Woods, Laurie, 78
Yale Law Journal, 51
Zivic, Fritzie, 168
Zobel, Hiller B., 79
Zola, Emile, 81
Zoll, Samuel, 29