Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures and tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Narrating violence in institutional settings 1
6. 2. Telling the truth about violence 15
7. 3. Representation, ownership and genre 37
8. 4. Telling and re-telling 57
9. 5. The protective order interview 87
10. 6. Disappearing acts 121
11. 7. Disfigurement and discrepancy 155
12. 8. Transforming domestic violence into narrative syntax 191
13. 9. Beyond the storytelling taboo 225
14. 10. Discrepant versions and the margins 269
15. References 279
16. Appendix. Glossary of legal terms 295
17. Author index 301
18. Subject index 305