Elizabeth Sheehy, Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts (2014).

Elaine Craig

“Why should women live in anticipatory dread and hypervigilence?” Elizabeth Sheehy writes in the concluding chapter of her important new book Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts. Instead, she argues, the legal system should “shift the risk of death to those men whose aggressions have created such dehumanizing fear in their female partners”.

In Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts, Sheehy offers a […]