VIOLENT PARTNERS
A Breakthrough Plan for Ending The Cycle Of Abuse
by LINDA G. MILLS, JD, Ph.D.
"In Violent Partners, Linda Mills continues to ask dangerous questions—about women's propensity to violence; about the murky powers stirring partnership; about the ways in which the flaws and failures of the women's movement's response may have unintentionally sustained some of our collective risk. In addition, she bravely confronts her own complicity in the violence that has shaped her life." -Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family
"This is clearly the most important book on domestic violence to appear in the last decade." -Duncan Lindsey, Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA; Editor in Chief, Children and Youth Services Review
"Disturbingly lucid, pertinent and crucial, Violent Partners is written with an unprecedented honesty, and scrambles the master codes by which we have traditionally identified perpetrators and victims. Linda Mills provides the only reliable road map to transforming the pervasive pull of abuse in our society." -Avital Ronell, author of Crack Wars and The Telephone Book
"Linda Mills is courageous. She manages to wake you up and encourage you to think about abuse in a different way. She dares to confront our understandings of violence in ways that challenge everyone—the victim, the victimizer, the enabler, and even the counselor. A combination of guts, fury, truth, introspection, well chosen anecdotes, surprising insights and a tremendous commitment to political and social justice makes Violent Partners unique. It can be a tremendous catalyst for change." -Elizabeth Swados, author of My Depression; Tony-nominated director and composer of Runaways.
Linda G. Mills, JD, Ph.D., is Founder of the Center on Violence and Recovery at New York University where she is also a professor and senior vice provost. She has introduced two groundbreaking treatment programs across the US: Healing Circles and Peacemaking Circles. The Circle programs bring couples together with family, friends, and community members to address the causes of violence between them. Mills has appeared on Oprah, Bill Moyers' Now, and The O'Reilly Factor and has been featured in the Boston Globe, the New York Times Magazine, and more. Her op-eds have appeared in USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Newsday. She lives in New York City.
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