| Description |
1 online resource (54 minutes) |
| Summary |
This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic background. Survivors, safe house administrators, counselors, police officers, and male abusers in counseling explore the many factors that contribute to the pervasiveness of this tragic aspect of American family life. Shot in battered women's shelters, urban and suburban neighborhoods, counseling centers, and even in a county jail where a woman has been incarcerated for the murder of her abusive husband |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed July 14, 2020) |
| Credits |
Editor, Allan Siegal ; assistant director, Valerie Harris ; sound recordist/assistant editor, J.T. Takagi ; sound editor, Shu Lea Cheang |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Powell, Bernadette, 1952-
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| SUBJECT |
Powell, Bernadette, 1952- fast (OCoLC)fst00137532 |
| Subject |
Abused wives -- United States
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Marital violence -- United States
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Family violence -- United States
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Abused wives
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Family violence
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Marital violence
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Women -- Crimes against
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Choy, Christine, director
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Third World Newsreel (Firm), publisher, film distributor.
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