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More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life-but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L. Miller shares these women's trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women's success in gaining inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. Written for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating the different paths to resiliency and growth.

Abused women --- Posttraumatic growth --- Resilience (Personality trait) in women. --- Intimate partner violence --- battered women. --- criminology. --- emotional abuse. --- gendered abuse. --- gendered violence. --- intimate partner abuse. --- intimate partner violence. --- ipa. --- ipv. --- paths to survivorship. --- post traumatic effect of intimate partner violence. --- post traumatic growth. --- social science. --- social service. --- surviving abuse. --- surviving abusive relationships. --- surviving domestic abuse. --- surviving intimate partner violence. --- surviving rape. --- womens agency. --- womens narratives of survival. --- womens resistance to violence. --- womens studies.