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Title: Weak scholarship but trendy for being anecdotal, revealing
Review: I do not recommend this book. I feel it is not intellectually rigorous, and makes dangerous parallels between the author's relationship (as a white, college educated woman with financial resources) and the relationships in which women in poverty may experience physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Also it was insensitive to the fact that race plays a role in these dynamics - perhaps the author didn't feel she could speak to this personally; but then her approach should have been much less grandiose and over-arching.Instead on intimate partner violence, I recommend:America's Dream. Esmeralda Santiago.The Turkish Lover.Black and Blue. Anna QuindlenTrash. Dorothy AllisonBastard Out of Carolina.Push. Sapphire.Chain, Chain, Change. Evelyn White.
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