Donna Ferrato is the founder of the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project (DAAP). Her work on domestic violence has won her numerous awards, among them the Crystal Eagle Award for courage in journalism, from the International Women's Media Foundation; the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award; the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography; and the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography. Introduction by Ann Jones.

This book of United States-based photojournalism presents photos and text drawn from the author's time in demonstrations, conferences, courtrooms, hospital emergency rooms, batterers' therapy groups and women's prisons. The preface provides information about getting help in situations of domestic violence. The book discusses why men engage in domestic violence, what they do, women's responses and options, effects on children, how the community and the law responds, and what happens to victims of domestic violence who kill their partners. The book is structured in chapters, some of which are set in particular situations such as in shelters or women's prisons, while others concentrate on individual women's stories. One chapter focuses on batterers.

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