Bøker av Jean Renvoize

Originally published in 1985, this, at the time, controversial book explores the fundamental changes in personal relationships that had taken place over the previous decade, focusing on women who had deliberately chosen to have children outside a permanent relationship.

In the early 1980s incest was ceasing to be a taboo subject. First published in 1982, the author had travelled around the USA, where considerable attention had been paid to incest in the previous few years, meeting professionals and ¿ more important ¿ victims and abusers themselves. This is a work of general as well as specialist interest.

Originally published in 1978, Jean Renvoize traces the web of violence along many different strands. She covers baby battering and child abuse, violent husbands and wives, `granny bashing¿ and incest. She looks at the psychological roots and the social patterns; she also surveys the agencies that act to prevent family violence.

In the early 1970s `baby battering¿ accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain. First published in 1974, the special virtue of this book was that, apart from being the first fully-researched book on the subject, the author was able to look at baby battering as an outsider, seeing the picture as a whole.