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History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement We've Come Further Than You Think
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In this captivating book, activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the violence against women movement in the UK and beyond from 1960s onwards, examining the transformatory p...
In this captivating book, activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the violence against women movement in the UK and beyond from 1960s onwards, examining the transformatory politics behind this movement through an important historical and international lens.
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- Gill Hague
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- English
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- Bristol : Policy Press, 2021
- 2021
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 1447356330, 1447356365, 9781447356325, 9781447356332, 9781447356356, 1447356357, 1447356349, 9781447356349, 1447356322, 9781447356363
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- on1255172313
- 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