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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Helping battered women: new perspectives and remedies /
edited by Albert R. Roberts.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-19-509586-3 ISBN 0-19-509587-1 (pbk).

1. Abused wives--Services for-- United States. 2. Abused women--
Services for--United States. 3. Social work with women--United
States. 4. Wife abuse--United States--Prevention.

I. Roberts, Albert R.

HV1445.H387 1996

362.82′928′0973--dc20 95-2158

3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2

Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper

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