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About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than statistical, overview of the problem of spousal abuse. It is based on an extensive set of interviews with abused women and individuals who seek to help them (shelter workers, police officers, marriage counsellors). More particularly, it follows four women as they move through the steps they must follow to extricate themselves from an abusive relationship and then get on with their lives.

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Shawn D. Haley teaches anthropology at Red Deer College in central Alberta, Canada. With a background in both Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, he has conducted field work in Canada, the United States, Peru and Mexico. He has also done considerable work in the area of Applied Anthropology - the application of anthropological techniques and insights to modern societal problems.

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