Women, violence and strategies for action : feminist research, policy and practice / edited by Jill Radford, Melissa Friedberg and Lynne Harne.

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TextPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 2000.Description: x, 193 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

0335203698 :
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362.83 RAD 21

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	362.83 RAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100692343

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Women, Violence and Strategies for Action is of direct relevance 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Notes on contributors (p. ix)
1 Introduction (p. 1)
2 Stalking and paedophilia: ironies and contradictions in the politics of naming and legal reform (p. 10)
3 Feminist strategy and tactics: influencing state provision of counselling for survivors (p. 25)
4 Virtual violence?: pornography and violence against women on the Internet (p. 40)
5 Prostitution, pornography and telephone boxes (p. 57)
6 Damaged children to throwaway women: from care to prostitution (p. 72)
7 Sexual violence and the school curriculum (p. 86)
8 Shifting the margins: black feminist perspectives on discourses of mothers in child sexual abuse (p. 103)
9 Supping with the Devil?: multi-agency initiatives on domestic violence (p. 120)
10 Caught in contradictions: conducting feminist action orientated research within an evaluated research programme (p. 136)
11 Domestic violence in China (p. 149)
12 Theorizing commonalities and difference: sexual violence, law and feminist activism in India and the UK (p. 167)
Index (p. 185)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.