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Summary: Very Helpful and informative
Review: If the woman in your life is out to get you, you must read this book. It is extremely helpful and the only book I know of exclusively on the subject of husband/boyfriend battering by women. The statistics in this book are surprising and the stories of the abused men in this book are its strongest point. This is really a breakthrough book.
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Summary: A much-needed book that uncovers a hidden cowardice
Review: No one has ever denied that some women are the victims of domestic violence. What is troubling though, is the belief that if a man reports he is the victim of domestic violence, that it is considered to be "backlash".Sure, some acts of violence toward men are in the name of self-defense...but don't be mistaken. The vast majority of attacks on men by women are unprovoked. Documented statistics by the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, and local police departments across the country prove, in no uncertain terms, that women stalk, hit, stab, shoot, and verbally abuse men for a very simple reason--because they think they can get away with it because they are women. Fortunately, police are becoming better trained to recognize these cowardly women who victimize men. It is a silent grief that men suffer when they are forced to cower in shame that they are somehow weak if they report what these women are doing. Make no mistake: physical or verbal abuse, whether it is directed toward a woman, or a man, is wrong.
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Summary: misleading conclusions
Review: Of course we need shelters and support services for battered men.However, what people need to realize is that women's shelters are saving the lives of more men than women. Read my analysis of the government statistics from the US and Canada to see why this is so.(See Counseling Female Offenders and Victims,2001) Women are not murdering men like they were due to the fact that they were killing out of fear. Now they have the shelter option. But men are still hunting them down as before. Also on the battering statistics: these figures include a lot of women slapping men who get fresh with them. Or self defense assaults. So the facts revealed in this book and carried by the media are false.
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Summary: Intimate Violence: The Case of Abused Men
Review: Philip Cook's Abused Men is well conceived, well documented, and well written; it is an excellent source book for both perpetrators and victims of domestic violence as well as for police officers, community leaders, health care providers, family therapists, crisis-line workers, and other helping professionals. Another positive aspect of this book is Cook's ability to make research findings on male abuse and its consequences accessible and understandable for readers new to the field of domestic violence. The book can serve as an eye opener about the factions, disagreements, and controversy that are part of the issue of domestic violence. Eugen Lupri, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
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Summary: Intimate Violence: The Case of Abused Men
Review: Philip Cook's Abused Men is well conceived, well documented, and well written; it is an excellent source book for both perpetrators and victims of domestic violence as well as for police officers, community leaders, health care providers, family therapists, crisis-line workers, and other helping professionals. Another positive aspect of this book is Cook's ability to make research findings on male abuse and its consequences accessible and understandable for readers new to the field of domestic violence. The book can serve as an eye opener about the factions, disagreements, and controversy that are part of the issue of domestic violence. Eugen Lupri, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
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Summary: Open your eyes and look at the entire picture of abuse.
Review: Sorry to all the feminist apologists out there, but men *are* abused by their female lovers, and rarely do they defend themselves - because the odds are so incredibly stacked against them. A woman can always claim that her abuse was in self-defense, and 99 times out of 100 she will be believed, no question. And where exactly is a battered man to go? There is exactly one shelter for abused men, and it's targeted to gay men, and it's in San Francisco. I guess if your wife is battering you in Virginia, you're SOL. I loathe the hypocrisy of the feminists who refuse to believe that women are capable of bad things - and when we do commit grievous bodily harm, assault, rape, or murder, it's not our fault. No, it's the husband, or the father, or the police, or someone (anyone) else. This book is one of the few that breaks the myth that women are the sole victims of domestic violence.
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Summary: A good and thorough examination of issues and resources deal
Review: The book deals with a controversial issue (are men really abused or is abuse a gender specific problem as some groups might suggest) in a tactful and extremely well documented manner. Research is well done. The interviews with "victims" are poigniant and well done. The chapter on getting help for those in trouble is great and the sociological discussions are compelling. I'd recommend this book to families suffering from abuse issues (regardless as to the victim's gender) and for teaching purposes at the college level.
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Summary: It's OK but it tries too hard to make its point.
Review: The book makes a credible case for the abuse of men by women -- and of the stigma attached to admitting such a thing, much like the (mercifully) lessening stigma attached to women bringing charges of sexual harassment or sexual assault. Men who are abused can find a measure of validation in reading the stories of other men who have been abused, and for this alone, the book provides a valuable service. However, in its drive to legitimize its premise, it needlessly minimizes the very real and continuing horror faced by WOMEN who suffer domestic violence and abuse. For this reason, and because the research, although credible, is unsatisfying and mysteriously thin, my review is that of a mild recommendation only. It could have been so much better.
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Summary: Misinformation promotes abusers and no help real victims
Review: The information that half of abuse is by women is a deliberate misreading of research that was done that did not distinguish between types, severity, and lethality of behaviors, nor offensive or defensive. It is extrodinarly difficult for men to come to grips with the attitudes, entitlements, and priveleges that we have, much like it was difficult for slave owners. This book obfuscates the painful but real situation that abuse is the entitlement to be superior, to control, to be contemptuous, to externalize responsibility and to blame the victim. This book eithe directly or indirectly acts as an accomplice to batterers to blame victims by making control and power based behaviors appear to be conflict between equals. Abusers are not angry men out of control, they are entitled men in control who employ various tactics to be in control and to regain control. This book is an example of a tactic to arm abusers by persuading us not to have a clear understanding of abuse and to have solidarity with victims. Lastly, it does not help real male, gay, trangendered, and lesbian victims either, as their abusers real motives are obfuscated as well by the book.
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Summary: double standards
Review: There is a great deal said about violence by men against women,usually generated by the feminist movement,while the reverse is hushed up. If concern about violence is sincere,then all violence must be condemned,including that carried out by governments in countries like Saudi Arabia,mostly against men. I am not that much of a liberal,but i was under the impression that modern thinking tended to look for a reason for a violent act,rather than simply dishing out punishment.
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