Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear /
Pizzey, Erin
Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear / edited by Alison Forbes - "Middlesex, Eng." Penguin Books 1983 - 149 p.
The book that provoked a storm of national publicity and concern
This book, now a classic, describes Erin Pizzey's struggle to open, and keep open, a refuge for battered women in Chiswick. She makes plain- often through the words of the women and children themselves just why we can no longer categorize as 'domestic tiffs' situations which normally involve broken noses, arms, ribs and jaws, serious scalds, cigarette burns and severe lacerations. Her 'horrifying and disturbing book' reveals that for the immense number of women on the receiving end of such 'tiffs' there is little or no escape, and no help to be found from the law, the National Health Service or the social services. Profoundly disturbing and important' New Psychiatry.
140221719
Social Problems.
306.85 PIZ
Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear / edited by Alison Forbes - "Middlesex, Eng." Penguin Books 1983 - 149 p.
The book that provoked a storm of national publicity and concern
This book, now a classic, describes Erin Pizzey's struggle to open, and keep open, a refuge for battered women in Chiswick. She makes plain- often through the words of the women and children themselves just why we can no longer categorize as 'domestic tiffs' situations which normally involve broken noses, arms, ribs and jaws, serious scalds, cigarette burns and severe lacerations. Her 'horrifying and disturbing book' reveals that for the immense number of women on the receiving end of such 'tiffs' there is little or no escape, and no help to be found from the law, the National Health Service or the social services. Profoundly disturbing and important' New Psychiatry.
140221719
Social Problems.
306.85 PIZ