Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know [Paperback]

Thomas B. James (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2003

Is domestic violence strictly a male phenomenon? Are all women who abuse their partners acting in self-defense? Is domestic violence about male privilege, power and control? In this book, the author conducts a meticulous and thorough examination of the research on domestic violence, coming to the unsettling conclusion that virtually everything we think we know about domestic violence is wrong. Exposing evidence of a deliberate governmental campaign to distort the truth and proliferate lies, he explains why honesty and candor are our only real hope for bringing an end to this enormous social problem.

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"All I want is the truth. Just give me some truth." --John Lennon

About the Author

Tom James is an attorney who has been practicing family law for eight years. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his postgraduate studies at Southwestern University School of Law and Hamline University. A long-time advocate of gender equality, he served as co-counsel on the class action lawsuit to declare the Minnesota Battered Women's Act unconstitutional. He currently resides in rural Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Aventine Press (November 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593301227
• ISBN-13: 978-1593301224
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,242,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps stop DV against everyone, February 23, 2006

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Mark J. Lesmeister (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know (Paperback)

Books such as this, that reveal the true nature of domestic violence as a two-sex phenomenon, in terms of both batterers and victims, are helpful to anyone who wants to stop domestic violence. The reason is, we now know that the only societies who have had success in reducing domestic violence against either sex are those that sought to reduce it against both sexes. That is because domestic violence is a learned behavior, and a boy (or a girl) can learn violence just as easily by watching Mom assault Dad as the reverse.

I have seen much of the research cited in this book for myself, and I can report that the conclusions the author makes, about the two-sex nature of domestic violence, are well documented.

51 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you love them, stop the violence, February 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know (Paperback)

This has so much critical information about domestic violence. It has the facts and figures necessary to argue for improving current attitudes regarding domestic violence. People need to be armed with the facts and figures if they hope to do anything to help alleviate the suffering of abuse victims. This book provides those facts and figures and also provides well documented citations and references. It is easy to read and understand, and no "fact" has been provided without plenty of evidence to back it up.

70 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth Trumps Gender Feminist Propaganda, July 24, 2005

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Men'sRightsActivist "GottKinder" (Sherman Oaks, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know (Paperback)

Tom James book, Domestic Violence: The Twelve Things You Aren't Supposed to Know, is an accurate and scholarly work that is long overdue. This book is a breath of fresh air after years of incompetent, ideologically driven, advocacy research by gender feminists who want to deny the cold, hard, documented facts about domestic violence.

For too long America has been presented only a biased view of domestic violence, based on bigoted perceptions of gender roles, rather than documented facts and truth. Such misandrist propaganda and gender feminist myths have created the monstrous domestic violence industry we know today. Such misandrist propaganda has promoted the gender feminist/women's studies agenda that loudly says, "Men are not allowed to be victims of domestic violence." Such misandrist propaganda harms us all.

Tom James is an American hero for presenting abundant scholarly documentation that solidly tells the truth about domestic violence. James honestly shows the degree to which men are not only victims of domestic violence; he also illuminates how all men are disserved by America's corrupt domestic violence industry.

Tom James abundantly backs up his proof with supporting documentation and footnotes. Contrast Tom James's solid research against the call for ignorance and more prejudice, towards male victims of domestic violence, that many in today's domestic violence industry are want to do.

Any sane, rational person reading this book will not only see the "hate war" that is being waged against America's men by the gender feminist ideologues in America's domestic violence industry, he/she will also see the underlying, obdurate pathology that makes those propagandist so totally unfit to handle the truth about domestic violence.