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Victims of domestic violence now often manage to escape to shelters for battered women, but this is a relatively new phenomenon. Such shelters have only come into being during recent decades. In Shelter , local documentary filmmaker and UT lecturer Anne Lewis tells the stories of five West Virginia women over a four-year period, as they find safety and justice for themselves and their children.
This article appears in June 13 • 2003.
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