Books
- Time's Up, Susan Murphy-Milano, an absolutely superb guide for survivors who want to escape safely, in incredible detail; SMM has also written other books like Defending Our Lives
- Why Does He Do That, by Lundy Bancroft – superb
- Battered Woman, by Lenore Walker – old, but still valid today
- When Love Goes Wrong, by Ann Jones and Susan Schechter
- Domestic Violence the Disease: the Sara Faraday Story, by Annette Reid, a nurse
- Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen (this one is fiction but very good)
- Safe Haven, by Nicholas Sparks (another good fiction read)
- Picture Perfect, Jodi Picoult (more good fiction)
- Should I Stay Or Should I Go?, Lundy Bancroft and Jac Patrissi
Film
You can take a look at the more obvious examples -- Burning Bed, Sleeping With the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do With It, The Color Purple – but if you go beyond that, you can find abuse stories all over the place: Titanic, the Rainmaker, Boys on the Side, Affliction, Fried Green Tomatoes, Raging Bull, Winter’s Bone, Kindergarten Cop, Sling Blade, This Boy’s Life. And the further back you go, the more you find “quaint” ideas about marriage and abuse: Gone With The Wind, the Godfather, Philadelphia Story, Public Enemy, Born Yesterday, Carousel, Gaslight, Streetcar Named Desire, Taming of the Shrew….It’s everywhere. And of course our pal John Wayne, who reveled in “disciplining” Maureen O’Hara in the finales of two different movies, Quiet Man and McClintock. Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick, to beat the lovely lady!
Let’s also add a documentary called Sin By Silence, which tells us about Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA), a group of female prisoners in California who were jailed for killing their abusive spouses.
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