1. My personal encounters with intimate violence
2. A brief history of the battered women's movement : enormous strides and unexpected consequences
3. Enlarging the frame : complicating our perspectives on severe abuse
pt. II. A new understanding
4. The anatomy of intimate abuse
5. Where does intimate abuse come from?
6. The dynamics of intimate abuse
7. Situational couple violence
8. Thinking beyond labels : the Odiernos and the Woodses
10. The new grassroots movement : SAFE and Violence Anonymous
11. The power of the group
12. My political encounters with intimate abuse
Conclusion : ending the cycle of abuse.
