Violence and Abuse

Other Recommended Resources

Books, Articles and Audiovisual Materials:

Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System. “Physical Abuse During Pregnancy.” Health Canada’s Centre for Healthy Human Development, February 2004.

Farley, Melissa, ed. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003.

Girshick, Lori B. Woman-to Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.

Levanthal, Beth amd Sandra Landy, eds. Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change. Sage Press, 1999. 

Renzetti, Claire, Jeffrey Edleson and  Raquel Kennedy Bergen, eds. Sourcebook on Violence against Women. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.

Renzetti, Claire M., and Charles Harvey Miley, eds. Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships. Haworth Press 1996.

Renzetti, Claire M. Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships. Sage Publications, 1992.

Sotelo, Nicole.  Women Healing from Abuse: Meditations for Finding Peace. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2006.

White, Evelyn. Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships. Seattle: Seal Press, 1994.

“Defending Our Lives.” (1993). Oscar-winning documentary on domestic violence.
Available from Cambridge Documentary Films
PO Box 390385
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 484-3993

“No!” (2004). Documentary about rape in the African-American Community by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
PO Box 58085
Philadelphia, PA 19102-8085
(215) 557-8154

“Rape is.” (2002). A comprehensive look at rape.
Distributed by Cambridge Documentary Films
PO Box 390385
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 484-3993; accompanied by resource web site