Overview

This collection gives important insight into the new issues and questions that have become central to understandings of women, violence and resistance. It focuses on the connections between research and the development of strategies for change by providing excellent examples of policy-relevant feminist research, rooted in both academe and activism. The emphasis throughout is on the link between research and strategies for action at the local, national and international level. The book gathers together the many exciting ideas, discussions and developments arising from the work of the researchers and activists who are part of the British Sociological Association Violence Against Women Study Group. The contributing authors share a commitment to research that centres on the material reality of women's lives and assists the generation of strategies for action. It complements the earlier volume, ""Women, Violence and Male Power"", extending the latter's coverage in important ways by addressing differences as well as commonalities between women, and the complexities of feminist analysis and activism in a changing context. This work should be of interest to practitioners working in the professions of probation, social work and law, as well as students and researchers in the fields of women's studies, sociology, social policy, social work, criminology and socio-legal studies. It will also be of interest to women's organizations, including local inter-agency forums.

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Author:   RADFORD ,  Melissa Friedberg ,  Lynne Harne
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
ISBN:  

9780335203697

ISBN 10:   0335203698
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   16 January 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Introduction Stalking and paedophilia ironies and contradictions in the politics of naming and legal reform Feminist strategy and tactics influencing state provision of counselling for survivors Virtual violence? pornography and violence against women on the Internet Prostitution, pornography and telephone boxes Damaged children to throwaway women from care to prostitution Sexual violence and the school curriculum Shifting the margins Black feminist perspectives on discourses of mothers in child sexual abuse Supping with the devil? multi-agency initiatives on domestic violence Caught in contradictions conducting feminist action orientated research within an evaluated research programme Domestic violence in China Theorizing commonalities and difference sexual violence, law and feminist activism in India and the UK Index.

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Author Information

Jill Radford is Reader and Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Women's Studies at the University of Teesside. Melissa Friedberg is a lecturer in the department of Social Work at Brunel University. Lynne Harne is a researcher at the University of Bristol, in the School for Policy Studies and has taught Women's Studies at the University of Westminster. All three are active members of the BSA Women's Caucus, Violence Against Women Study Group.

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