Next Time, She'll Be Dead
Battering and How to Stop It
Published on 1. September 2015
314 pages
978-1-5040-1953-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Whether you're an individual woman looking for help or a reader looking for the truth about the thousands of women who are battered by the men they live with,
Next Time, She'll Be Deadis the one book you should read." -Gloria Steinem
At least 1 in 4 women will be abused during her lifetime-that is 25% of our mothers, daughters, sisters, partners, and friends. Thousands will be killed. As author Ann Jones observes, despite its devastation battering is regarded not as a serious crime, but instead as an inevitable "problem" blandly labeled "domestic violence." Stories of household assaults and murders are all over the news, but the blame is usually pinned on the woman who is said to have either provoked the attack or failed to "leave." In this groundbreaking book, Jones points instead to the many factors in society that promote, trivialize, and perpetuate brutality against women: from popular psychology, academic "expertise," mass media, and pop culture, to the criminal justice system and the law itself.
Delving deep into the history, legality, and personal politics of male violence against wives and girlfriends, Next Time, She'll Be Deadfearlessly reframes the issue. This critically acclaimed masterwork offers productive ways of thinking and speaking about battering and explains what must be done to stop it.
At least 1 in 4 women will be abused during her lifetime-that is 25% of our mothers, daughters, sisters, partners, and friends. Thousands will be killed. As author Ann Jones observes, despite its devastation battering is regarded not as a serious crime, but instead as an inevitable "problem" blandly labeled "domestic violence." Stories of household assaults and murders are all over the news, but the blame is usually pinned on the woman who is said to have either provoked the attack or failed to "leave." In this groundbreaking book, Jones points instead to the many factors in society that promote, trivialize, and perpetuate brutality against women: from popular psychology, academic "expertise," mass media, and pop culture, to the criminal justice system and the law itself.
Delving deep into the history, legality, and personal politics of male violence against wives and girlfriends, Next Time, She'll Be Deadfearlessly reframes the issue. This critically acclaimed masterwork offers productive ways of thinking and speaking about battering and explains what must be done to stop it.
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Person
Ann Jones is a journalist, a photographer, and the author of ten books of nonfiction. She has written extensively about violence against women, reported from Afghanistan, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East on the impact of war upon civilians, and embedded with American forces in Afghanistan to report on the impact of war on soldiers. Her articles appear most often inthe
Nationand online at TomDispatch.com.
Jones's work has received generous support from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (both at Harvard University), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation.
Jones's work has received generous support from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (both at Harvard University), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Introduction
- 1. Against the Law
- 2. Rights and Wrongs
- 3. What Is "Domestic Violence"?
- 4. The Language of Love
- 5. Why Doesn't She heave?
- 6. A Woman to Blame
- 7. What Can We Do?
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
