Feminists Organising Against Gendered Violence

ISBN-13: 9780230007727 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 211 str.

Lesley McMillan

Opis

McMillan provides the first detailed account of the women's anti-violence movement in Europe, from an international comparative perspective. Exploring how feminists have responded to violence in society, this study also examines how they have organized their response, their achievements and the factors that have facilitated their calls to change.

Spis treści

Introduction Violence Against Women and the Feminist Movement Feminism and the State Women's Anti-Violence Organisations and the State Working to End Violence: Staffing the Anti-Violence Movement Funding Feminist Movement Organisations Working Around Violence Organisation, Structure and Function of the Feminist Movement Working Around Violence Learning to Listen to Trauma Stories: Doing Research on Violence Against Women Conclusion

O autorze

LESLEY MCMILLAN is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sussex, UK. Her research and teaching interests include gendered and sexual violence against women, statutory and voluntary responses to gendered violence, women's sexual health, the sociology of trauma and rape, and the criminal justice process.