The Language of Battered Women

The Language of Battered WomenShows how battered women's personal theologies help them survive and heal, despite the women's knowledge that religion may also have contributed to their oppression. Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) This study of battered women living in a shelter offers a rhetorical analysis of survivors' personal theologies. Author Carol L. Winkelmann holds that while

Chittick's masterful new translation brings this work to an English-language audience for the first time

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Diachronically tracing the contours of American memorial traditions from 1630 to the present provides a nearly cinemagraphic representationof the ebb and flow

it is the pervasive influence

In an appendix invaluable for the folklorist

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and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself