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Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book.
Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by a generation of feminist pioneers.
From the women’s liberation movement until now, this book showcases the campaigning zeal with which policies, services and awareness-raising on gendered violence in the UK and across the world were built, including for Black and minority women. This fascinating history will inform and inspire new ways forward within the domestic violence movement.
Introduction
Everything seemed to change at once: women’s liberation and the women’s movement(s) from the 1960s
Women’s liberation: strands, debates, transformations
The violence against women movements burst into life
Taking on rape and sexual violence, as well as domestic abuse
A radical women’s politics: the light of innovation and new ways to organise
Wider feminist principles and domestic violence: making a new world
As time went on: the movements on domestic violence and harmful practices grow
Struggling to change: campaigns, laws, and local and global strategies
Activist responses, justice and shelters (refuges) across the world
Expanding the movements, gaining the evidence: feminist research and transnational action
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