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No visible bruises : what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us / Rachel Louise Snyder.

Summary:

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a "global epidemic." In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national issues, from our economy to our education system, from mass shootings to mass incarceration to #MeToo. We still have not taken the true measure of this problem.

Record details

ISBN: 9781635570977
ISBN: 1635570972
Physical Description: viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: The end. Little lunatics -- Barnacle siblings -- Whatever he's holding inside -- Daddy always lives -- A bear is coming at you -- This person you love will take your life -- And then they'll pray -- I can't live here anymore -- Systems, accidents, incidents -- And what happens next -- Part II: The beginning. Penance -- Watching violence in a fishbowl -- The fatal peril club -- Clustered at the top -- The haunting presence of the inexplicable -- A superhero's kneecaps -- In the season of unmitigated discovery -- Those who break -- Part III: The middle. In the cracks -- Shelter in place -- In the fire -- Grace under pressure -- Chambering a round -- Free free -- Shadow bodies.