In this unflinching history of family violence, the historian Linda
Gordon traces policies on child abuse and neglect, wife-beating,
and incest from 1880 to 1960. Drawing on hundreds of case records
from social agencies devoted to dealing with the problem, Gordon
chronicles the changing visibility of family violence as gender,
family, and political ideologies shifted.
From the "discovery" of family violence in the 1870s -- when it
was first identified as a social, rather than a personal, problem
-- to the women's and civil rights movements of the twentieth
century, Heroes of Their Own Lives illustrates how public
perceptions of marriage, poverty, alcoholism, mental illness, and
responsibility worked for and against the victims of family
violence.
Powerful, moving, and tightly argued, Heroes of Their Own Lives
shows family violence to be an indicator of larger social problems.
Examining its sources as well as its treatment, Gordon offers both
an honest understanding of the problem and an unromantic view of
the difficulties in stopping it.
Originally published in 1988, when it received the Berkshire
Prize and the Gustavus Myers Award, Heroes of Their Own Lives
remains the most extensive and important history of family violence
in America.
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