Not to People Like Us

By Susan Weitzman

Subjects: affluance, women, women's issues, Abused wives, Upper class women, relationships, Middle class women, abuse

Description: An expose of abuse among the wealthy, with guidance for abused women. "Thought too privileged and too educated to be victims of emotional and physical violence, the affluent women of Chicago--as sketched by psychotherapist Weitzman--form a portrait of abuse that challenges misconceptions of class and domestic violence. Her exposé discloses reasons for upper-class violence, as well as reasons for the comparable silence about it."