Description
"Intimate Violence" documents the ways in which battered women who kill their batterers envision their roles in the system of intimate violence in the United States. Building upon earlier work, this project examines, through life history methodology and the prison narrative, the life stories of twenty-five formerly battered women who have resorted to violence with their abusive partners. Some of these women have been released through gubernatorial commutations and clemency arrangements; others still incarcerated, many serving life sentences for their crimes. Through ethnographic interview process, this project developes a deeper understanding of the cultural explanations which configure intimate violence in the United States and contributes to the activist and academic links between intellectual interpretation and a commitment to the reality of the experience.
