Women, Violence and Social Change

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 7
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 9
1 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN......Page 10
2 THE RISE OF THE MOVEMENT......Page 24
ISSUES—OLD AND NEW......Page 25
The context of emerging movements......Page 26
The nature of social movements......Page 27
EMERGENCE OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT AND SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES......Page 31
Goal: equal rights or liberation......Page 32
The recognition of wife abuse and collective action......Page 34
The vision: goals of the movement......Page 37
Division of labour and styles of working......Page 38
Britain......Page 41
The United States......Page 44
Diversity and identity......Page 45
Language: for battered women and against male violence......Page 47
Funding: the dilemmas of free vs. paid labour and co-optation vs. survival......Page 49
Men......Page 51
Activists and professionals......Page 54
A broad based movement: pluralism and sectionalism......Page 57
Race......Page 58
Sexual preference......Page 62
Social class......Page 63
Coalitions......Page 64
3 REFUGES AND HOUSING......Page 67
THE FIRST REFUGES AND EARLY EXPANSION......Page 70
Early expansion......Page 72
TYPES OF FEMINISM AND TYPES OF REFUGE......Page 76
The legacy......Page 77
The modern movement......Page 80
TYPES OF REFUGE......Page 82
Architecture......Page 84
Philanthropic......Page 86
Organizational and bureaucratic......Page 88
Therapeutic......Page 89
Activist......Page 92
Refuges and change......Page 96
A PERMANENT HOME......Page 99
4 THE STATE, PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 105
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STATE......Page 106
STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE......Page 109
The repressive state......Page 111
The enabling state......Page 115
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS......Page 117
NATIONAL HEARINGS IN BRITAIN......Page 118
The construction of information and the contest of ideas......Page 119
Chiswick and psychiatry......Page 120
Women’s aid......Page 123
Other groups......Page 126
Official discourse and government recommendations for action......Page 127
Proposals for action and change......Page 128
NATIONAL HEARINGS IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 134
The construction of ideas......Page 135
The contest of ideas......Page 137
Federal legislation and the movement......Page 141
THE DYNAMIC OF PARTICIPATION AND CHANGE......Page 147
5 CHALLENGING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM......Page 151
LAW AND JUSTICE AS INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE......Page 152
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND CRMINAL JUSTICE......Page 154
THE LEGACY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE......Page 158
PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL WELFARE AND FAMILY COURTS......Page 162
CRISIS INTERVENTION......Page 165
The United States......Page 170
Great Britain......Page 174
6 NEW LAWS AND NEW REACTIONS......Page 178
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE AND ADMINISTRATION INITIATIVES......Page 179
COMMUNITY APPROACHES TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE USA......Page 181
The San Francisco Family Violence Project......Page 182
The Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project......Page 183
The Santa Barbara Family Violence Project......Page 187
Civil remedies—injunctions and interdicts......Page 189
Police enforcement......Page 193
SUCCESSES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE USA......Page 200
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF THE MOVEMENT......Page 206
CONTRADICTIONS AND LIMITATIONS......Page 209
Business as usual......Page 210
The costs of working with the justice system......Page 211
Against the use of justice......Page 212
7 THE THERAPEUTIC SOCIETY CONSTRUCTS BATTERED WOMEN AND VIOLENT MEN......Page 216
THE THERAPEUTIC SOCIETY......Page 217
Masochism and relationship addiction......Page 224
Personality, learned helplessness and the battered woman syndrome......Page 226
Learned helplessness and the courts......Page 230
 THE PREDICAMENT OF BATTERED WOMEN......Page 232
THERAPEUTIC ACCOUNTS OF THE VIOLENT MAN......Page 237
CHALLENGING VIOLENT MEN......Page 242
The movement and programmes for violent men......Page 243
Pro-feminist programmes for violent men......Page 245
Fundamental principles of pro-feminist programmes......Page 249
8 KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 253
ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES, DEFINITIONS OF PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS......Page 254
THE MOVEMENT AND RESEARCH......Page 257
FAMILY VIOLENCE RESEARCH AND THE ‘BATTERED HUSBAND SYNDROME'......Page 260
Seeking public policy for battered husbands......Page 263
VIOLENCE-AGAINST-WOMEN RESEARCH AND THE ABUSED WOMAN......Page 265
Violent men and abused women......Page 266
Historical evidence......Page 268
The nature of violence against women......Page 270
When women hit back......Page 272
Violent women and battered husbands?......Page 273
Homicides in the home, when women kill......Page 274
‘FACTS’ OBSCURING REALITY: THE COUNTER FACTUAL AND THE COUNTER INTUITIVE......Page 275
National surveys and the conflict tactics scales......Page 276
THEORIES AND EXPLANATIONS......Page 282
9 INNOVATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 286
1 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN......Page 300
2 THE RISE OF THE MOVEMENT: ORIENTATIONS AND ISSUES......Page 305
3 REFUGES AND HOUSING......Page 313
4 THE STATE, PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 318
5 CHALLENGING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM......Page 325
6 NEW LAWS AND NEW REACTIONS......Page 331
THE THERAPEUTIC SOCIETY CONSTRUCTS BATTERED WOMEN AND VIOLENT MEN 7......Page 340
8 KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 348
9 INNOVATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE......Page 358
SELECTED REFERENCES......Page 359
NAME INDEX......Page 366
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 372