Word: woman
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Lawyers for battered women continue to champion orders of protection as important signals to the outside world that a woman is serious about changing her life. Orders can also provide useful evidence for custody battles or other legal encounters. But until would-be violators know that the criminal-justice system will treat them as seriously as other criminals, court orders cannot provide the one thing that battered women need most: safety...
...risks having to serve up to ten days in jail. Follow-up studies done two years after the program started show that about 80% of the women whose partners went through the program were no longer being battered. "It's made a big difference in our life," says a woman whose boyfriend attended the classes two years ago. "Without that program we would have broken up, because I know he would have beaten me again...
Sometimes, though, even the best efforts are not enough. If a woman "truly needs an order because a man is going to kill her, then a restraining order really isn't going to do anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that...
...such surface judgments mask the intensity within Wasserstein, the vision that spawned her new hit Broadway play, The Heidi Chronicles. "I wrote this play because I had this image of a woman standing up at a women's meeting saying, 'I've never been so unhappy in my life,' " Wasserstein explains. "Talking to friends, I knew there was this feeling around, in me and in others, and I thought it should be expressed theatrically. But it wasn't. The more angry it made me that these feelings weren't being expressed, the more anger I put into that play...
...living in a Greenwich Village apartment, with no formal attachments aside from a cat named Ginger. Relentlessly social, Wasserstein has built a life revolving around an intricate network of friendships, many with other playwrights. But writing Heidi represented, in part, an acknowledgment that Wasserstein, like her heroine, is a woman alone. As Andre Bishop, the artistic director of Playwrights Horizon, puts it, "Wendy is now coming into her own as a writer and a person, and those two are very much linked...