Eight Lessons in Love: A Domestic Violence Reader

The title of this book is deliberately ironic. Domestic violence is not about love as we understand it, but about the need for men to reassert their threatened or lost command in a relationship. Eight Lessons in Love is a critical study of fictional treatments of that ironic problem, offering a radical new way of reading and teaching those works as drastic lessons in power and control.

Drawing on his recent experience as a volunteer group co-counselor of male batterers, and on hi…