Living Between Danger and Love
198 pages, 6 x 9
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Dec 1999
ISBN:9780813527444
Andrea O'Donnell did not fit what criminal justice experts call the "victim profile." The twenty-seven-year old women's studies major at San Diego State University was the director of the campus Women's Resource Center and a self-defense instructor. Nevertheless, in the early morning hours of November 5, 1994, she was brutally murdered. Her decomposed body was discovered in the apartment that she shared with her boyfriend, Andres English-Howard. In August 1995, he was convicted of first-degree murder. The night before he was scheduled to appear in court for sentencing, English-Howard hanged himself in his jail cell. Author Kathleen B. Jones, one of O'Donnell's professors, was particularly shaken by her death. In Living Between Danger and Love, she examines O'Donnell's death and what it has to say to all of us. She provokes readers to consider the irony that our ideas about choice might prevent us from imagining and discovering social relationships of intimacy where love and power are not in conflict
The moral that Kathleen B. Jones finds in her story is this: æI have wanted to convey the message that violence can hit anyone . . . . but, more than anything, I have wanted to make it clear that even strong women can become victims.Æ . . . JonesÆ sometimes agonized, sometimes lyrical progress toward this realization is so earnest and unsparingly self-searching that I came to see the value of her brave book: that it can persuade other complacent women that victims are not a class apart.
Jones explores whether any of usùwomen and menùare ever really in control of our own lives and our intimate relationships with others. . . . Living Between Danger and Love is . . . compelling and deeply thought-provoking.
Kathleen Jones shows us the complex and painful side of modern feminismÆs unfinished agenda. Living Between Danger and Love brings home the stories of domestic violence that we all read in the newspapers. Her book makes you realize that this type of tragedy can happen to someone like me, someone like you, or someone you love.
A thickly braided marvel: part memoir, part memorial and lamentation, part compassionate feminist cosmology. Living Between Danger and Love is a fast read that makes you think long and hard.
A compelling, vivid account that highlights how any woman can become a victim of domestic violence. It is equally the story of Kathleen Jones, who shares her own pain and resulting activism in trying to make sense of this studentÆs tragedy and prevent other deaths.
Kathleen B. Jones is a professor of women's studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women and co-author of The Political Interests of Gender and Women Transforming Politics.
Acknowledgments
Between Power and Love
Courts of Martyrs and Monsters
Women's Movements
States of Mind
Secrets
Sanctuaries
Credits and Resources
Between Power and Love
Courts of Martyrs and Monsters
Women's Movements
States of Mind
Secrets
Sanctuaries
Credits and Resources
