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History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement
We've Come Further Than You Think
By Gill Hague
Published
May 26, 2021Page count
168 pagesISBN
978-1447356332Dimensions
216 x 138 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
Published
May 26, 2021Page count
168 pagesISBN
978-1447356325Dimensions
216 x 138 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
Published
May 26, 2021Page count
168 pagesISBN
978-1447356356Dimensions
216 x 138 mmImprint
Policy PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement
Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book.
Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by a generation of feminist pioneers.
From the women’s liberation movement until now, this book showcases the campaigning zeal with which policies, services and awareness-raising on gendered violence in the UK and across the world were built, including for Black and minority women.
"She was in the room when it happened. Gill Hague, feminist activist pioneer and scholar, details the Women's Liberation Movements and the Violence Against Women Movements from then until now." Rebecca Emerson Dobash, University of Manchester
Gill Hague is Professor Emerita of Violence against Women Studies at the University of Bristol and an activist, practitioner and researcher on violence against women nationally and internationally. She was a founder of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies at University of Bristol and has over 130 publications on violence against women including eight books. Hague has received both a CBE and an Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her life’s work on gender violence.
Introduction
Everything seemed to change at once: women’s liberation and the women’s movement(s) from the 1960s
Women’s liberation: strands, debates, transformations
The violence against women movements burst into life
Taking on rape and sexual violence, as well as domestic abuse
A radical women’s politics: the light of innovation and new ways to organise
Wider feminist principles and domestic violence: making a new world
As time went on: the movements on domestic violence and harmful practices grow
Struggling to change: campaigns, laws, and local and global strategies
Activist responses, justice and shelters (refuges) across the world
Expanding the movements, gaining the evidence: feminist research and transnational action
Afterword
