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Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman Scott-Coe, Jo
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781477327647
- Book Title
- Unheard Witness : the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Gender Studies, Violence in Society
- Item Weight
- 20.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
1477327649
ISBN-13
9781477327647
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14059024681
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unheard Witness : the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Gender Studies, Violence in Society
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
20.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2022-056014
Reviews
Historian Scott-Coe (Mass) paints a richly textured portrait of Kathy Leissner Whitman . . . Telling the story in flashbacks and vignettes, Scott-Coe presents this cautionary tale with compassion and sensitivity. The result is an insightful close study of the connection between domestic violence and mass shootings., Scott-Coe [is] uniquely positioned to approach the story of Whitman's long-suffering wife with expert care and thorough research...The author raises important questions and points out what research has found about intimate partner violence, framing Kathy's story as a cautionary tale, but one that is all too common. Without Whitman, she might be 80 years old today, enjoying retirement from a successful career as a teacher. With him, a promising life was cut short, and his terrorism overshadowed her memory, but this carefully crafted tribute ensures it will not be erased., Told in vivid detail through an enormous trove of letters that Leissner's brother kept long after her violent death, the reader plunges immediately, uncomfortably, and intimately into the life and thoughts of a doomed woman . . . She chooses to bring back to vivid life Kathy . . . and Scott-Coe succeeds: This book is an intimate and uncomfortable read that puts the reader deep inside Kathy's mind.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
362.8292092
Table Of Content
Introduction Danger, 1961 Country Life, Only Daughter Pulled Off-Course Whirlwind Trouble Starts at Home Mapping an Escape Separated and Almost Safe Barometer Dropping Between the Leaves Disturbed Horizons "Back to Normal Soon" Behind the Eyewall Epilogue: Recovery and Response Acknowledgments Questions for Book Groups or Classroom Discussion Notes Index
Synopsis
Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman's experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966., Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman's experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966. In 1966, Kathy Leissner Whitman was a twenty-three-year-old teacher dreaming of a better future. She was an avid writer of letters, composing hundreds in the years before she was stabbed to death by her husband, Charles Whitman, who went on to commit a mass shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Kathy's writing provides a rare glimpse of how one woman described, and sought to change, her short life with a coercive, controlling, and violent partner. Unheard Witness provides a portrait of Kathy's life, doing so at a time when Americans are slowly grasping the link between domestic abuse and mass shootings. Public violence often follows violence in the home, yet such private crimes continue to be treated separately and even erased in the public imagination. Jo Scott-Coe shows how Kathy's letters go against the grain of the official history, which ignored Kathy's perspective. With its nuanced understanding of abuse and survival, Unheard Witness is an intimate, real-time account of trust and vulnerability--in its own way, a prologue to our age of atrocities., Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman's experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966. In 1966, Kathy Leissner Whitman was a twenty-three-year-old teacher dreaming of a better future. She was an avid writer of letters, composing hundreds in the years before she was stabbed to death by her husband, Charles Whitman, who went on to commit a mass shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Kathy's writing provides a rare glimpse of how one woman expressed, and sought to change, her short life with a coercive, controlling, and violent partner. Unheard Witness provides a portrait of Kathy's life, doing so at a time when Americans are slowly grasping the link between domestic abuse and mass shooting. Public violence often follows violence in the home, yet such private crimes continue to be treated separately and even erased in the public imagination. Jo Scott-Coe studies Kathy's letters against the grain of the official history, which ignored Kathy's perspective. With its nuanced understanding of abuse and survival, Unheard Witness is an intimate, real-time account of trust and vulnerability--in its own way, a prologue for our age of atrocity.
LC Classification Number
HV6626.22.T49S368
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