{"product_id":"insult-to-injury-rethinking-our-responses-to-intimate-abuse-9780691127729","title":"Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Linda G. Mills\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Abuse - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a breath of fresh air. [This book] takes on the entrenched and very powerful. Superb stuff. . . . Exhilarating.\"\u003cb\u003e--Archbishop Desmond Tutu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a searching and spirited story of human intimacy as it sometimes descends into aggression: violence inflicted and vulnerability endured--a melancholy story told with thoughtfulness, with sensitivity, and with a brave willingness to consider the subtleties and ironies of affliction perpetrated and endured.\"\u003cb\u003e--Robert Coles, Harvard University, editor of \"DoubleTake\" magazine, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secular Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mills is thoughtful, nuanced, and original in her analysis of intimate abuse. With compassionate insight, she reveals how insult can lead to injury and outlines a practical alternative path to healing and safety. \"This is a feminist critique, and a survivor's, of a mandated one-size-fits-all approach to punishing domestic violence. Mills moves our thinking beyond unilateralism, beyond bilateralism, to a multilateral approach to repairing lives shattered by violence. It poses a profound challenge to existing orthodoxy and should spawn a generation of empirical research to refute, refine. and vindicate its analysis.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Braithwaite, Australian National University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Insult to Injury will change the public relationship to intimate violence: \"Linda Mills mines the depths of our personal denial, challenging us to return to what we somehow already know. She'll take hits for the honesty--and the expectations it holds out to us. But she's done the long labor of real scholarship, building a sturdy bridge to these next dangerous steps of trust.\"\u003cb\u003e--Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of \u003ci\u003eRandom Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this book, Linda Mills generates a bold and provocative thesis. While some may disagree with her, her views must be taken into account in the conversation on domestic violence.\"\u003cb\u003e--Phyllis Goldfarb, Boston College School of Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mills's accomplishment is impressive and courageous. Clearly and even elegantly written, her book offers a way out of the current unproductive debate about the agency of women in abusive relationships.\"\u003cb\u003e--Christine A. Littleton, Professor of Law and Chair, Women's Studies Programs, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mills is the right person to write this book, and she does an admirable job.\"\u003cb\u003e--Richard Gelles, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Violent Home and The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268534984855,"sku":"9780691127729","price":2138.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691127729.webp?v=1769236053","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/insult-to-injury-rethinking-our-responses-to-intimate-abuse-9780691127729","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}