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History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement : We've Come Further Than You Think /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hague, Gill (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Victims of family violence.
Family violence > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Family violence > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement: We've Come Further Than You Think
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Table of contents
  • List of poems
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • The aims of the book
  • What is needed is a collective, collaborative effort
  • A short book only: not a detailed or academic account
  • A participant analysis
  • How the book was developed
  • What the chapters contain
  • The wider social movements from which the women's movements arose
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Everything seemed to change at once: women's liberation and the women's movement(s) from the 1960s
  • For more detail
  • And so it started
  • Background and memoir
  • The author on the display board too
  • Personal memoir
  • Where did the movement in UK countries come from? Fertile roots
  • The new passionate movement
  • Consciousness-raising
  • On the one hand: patriarchy
  • On the other hand: collectives and new ways of organising
  • Groups and campaigns erupt almost daily
  • Feminist newsletters, presses and books
  • Adding to the Four Demands amid a multitude of conferences
  • Lesbian liberation
  • The independent Black women's movement
  • Campaigns, demonstrations, music, art: more and more of everything
  • A dazzling array
  • The Seven Demands of the women's liberation movement
  • 3 Women's liberation: strands, debates, transformations
  • So what distinguishes different strands of feminism?
  • Transformations, conflicts and divisions
  • Black women and intersectionality
  • Moving on: identity politics
  • Women in the academy
  • A word on the wider women's movements across the world
  • Women's liberation and the New Left
  • Memoirs and memories
  • Further books, archives and references
  • A concluding word
  • 4 The violence against women movements burst into life
  • The first glimmerings: taking on violence against women
  • Domestic violence and abuse: history and passionate moves forward
  • Challenging the very fabric of relations between women and men
  • New services, new beliefs, new ways of living
  • Refuges and Women's Aid
  • Funding
  • Continuing to grow
  • Meeting the needs of women from Black and minority ethnic communities
  • Books and resources for wider reference
  • To conclude
  • 5 Taking on rape and sexual violence, as well as domestic abuse
  • The hardest issue: combatting sexual violence for the first time
  • Pioneering work on rape in marriage and femicide
  • At the beginning: small confidential groups on sexual violence
  • The rape crisis movement
  • London Rape Crisis Centre and other pioneers
  • Rape crisis centres evolve further
  • Women Against Violence Against Women and Reclaim the Night
  • Issues for Black and minority women
  • Sexual Abuse Referral Centres, Independent Sexual Violence Advocate/Advisors and other rape organisations
  • In sum