Women, Violence and Social Change

Women, Violence and Social Change

by R. Emerson Dobash (Author), Russell P. Dobash (Author)

Synopsis

Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and social services to provide greater assistance to women. The book provides important evidence on the way social movements can successfully challenge institutions of the State as well as salutatory lessons on the nature of diverted and thwarted struggle.
Throughout the book the Dobashes' years of researching violence against women is illustrated in the depth of their analysis. They maintain the tradition established in their first book, Violence Against Wives, which was widely accalimed.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 380
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Sep 1992

ISBN 10: 0415036100
ISBN 13: 9780415036108

Media Reviews
In their eralier book, Violence Against Wives: A Case Against the Patriarchy, Dobash and Dobash identified themselves as committed feminist sociologists and clearly located the phenomenon of wife beating in its social and historical context. In the current book, they continue their passionate, scholarly analysis. Women, Violence and Social Change reminds us of the traditions of social change within which we practice and the visionary and exhilirating movement of which we are a part..
-Sandra Butler, Afflia, Boston University