Using her own original writings and some taken from a variety of previously published books and periodicals, Eigenberg (U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga) displays woman battering with all of its edges showing. The book examines woman battering as a means of social control and as a crime that is routinely ignored by all ranks of society. Articles cover topics such as what causes battering, who is beaten, police response to battering, and factors in arrests of domestic assaults.