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SURVIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE tells the stories of twelve women. Each was a victim of domestic violence, escaped from her abuser, reclaimed her dignity, reconstructed her life, and rediscovered peace. Domestic violence doesn’t just happen "out there" somewhere. It happens in our town, in our neighborhood, on our street. It happens to women we see at work, the supermarket, the movie theater, the ballet and the PTA board meeting. Every woman who has left an abusive man—every woman who has yet to leave—will find encouragement and hope in the voices of these women who broke free.

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It is with pride that Volcano Press is publishing Elaine Weiss. Her books demonstrate the great advances in the struggle against family violence that have taken place since we first published BATTERED WIVES in the early 1970s.

In those early days, a handful of feminists, scattered across the United States, were creating shelters for battered women--without funding, without community understanding, against great odds. It was and still is a historic movement.

Today, we have the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which established an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. In addition, there are many state domestic violence coalitions and a myriad of local and national programs to support battered women.

And, as author Elaine Weiss says, "Most abused women are not passive victims. They show enormous strength, both while they are within the relationship, and as they work to extricate themselves. One proof of this strength is the huge number who ultimately manage to break free and go on with their lives. They do not wait to be rescued. They rescue themselves. They are resourceful. They fight back. They take care of themselves, and often of their children."

We thank Elaine for giving voices to these women.

Ruth Gottstein, Publisher
Adam Gottstein, Associate Publisher
Volcano Press

From the Author:
"Writing this book," I wrote in the summer of 1999, as I put the finishing touches on the first printing of Surviving Domestic Violence, "has taught me that stories can be gifts." Each woman I interviewed gave me the gift of her story. I was touched and honored that they gave so freely of themselves.

Today, four years later, as I write the prologue to the newest printing, I still believe that stories are gifts. But since the book has been published, I have continued to receive gifts. These days, my gifts are the words of my readers: men and women who have written to me, sharing their thoughts and feelings about the book.

I made it easy for them do so by including my e-mail address in the book. I admit that I agonized over this decision. Would anyone bother to write? What would they say? Naturally, I hoped my readers would thank me for my words. I hoped they would tell me that the book had helped them untangle the messy threads of abuse in their own lives or in the lives of someone they cared about. At the same time, I feared (my fears reinforced by the little voice that whispers in a corner of my mind at two o’clock in the morning) that the book would stagnate on bookstore shelves as the occasional browser flipped idly through a few pages and returned it to the shelf.

May this book help other women "break free".

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  • PublisherVolcano Press
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 1884244270
  • ISBN 13 9781884244278
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