Reading List

Essential Reading for all Members of WHBW

Getting Free - Ginny NiCarthy
The Battered Woman - Lenore Walker

Essential Reading for Workers in Children's Services
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Strongly Suggested Reading
Women and Male Violence - Susan Schecter
Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering - Kerry Lobel
When Love Goes Wrong - Ann Jones and Susan Schecter
The Burning Bed - Faith McNulty

Other Readings

Teenage Dating Violence
Dating Violence: Young Women in Danger - Barrie Levy

Incest
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
I Never Told Anyone - Ellen Bass & Louise Thornton
Voices in the Night - Toni McNaron & Yarrow Morgan

Battered Women Who Kill
Living With the Enemy - Donna Ferrato
Femicide, the Politics of Women Killing - Radford & Russel
Women Who Kill - Ann Jones
Battered Women Who Kill - Charles Ewing
Terrifying Love, When Battered Women Kill - L. Walker

Helping
How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service - Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
"The Right to Fail," Social Work, 1963, 8(3), pp. 72-78, - Soyer, D.
"When 50-50 Isn't Fair: The Case Against Couples Counseling in Domestic Abuse," Social Work, Nov., 1994, pp. 636-637, - Golden, G. & Frank, P.

Groupwork
Talking It Out - by Ginny NiCarthy
"Groups to Empower Battered Women," Affilia, 1992, 7(4), pp 82-95, - by Wood, G., Middleman, R.

Feminist Visions and Diversity
"Class Diversity In Shelter Life," Social Work, Nov. 1989, pp 491-495, - Davidon, B. & Jenkins, P.
"Introduction," Feminist Visions for Social Work, 1986, National Association of Social Workers, Inc., Silver Springs, MD, eds. Van Den Bergh & Cooper.
"Defining Feminist Social Work, Social Work, May/June, 1986, pp. 214-219.