Family Violence and the Women's Movement : : The Conceptual Politics of Struggle / / Gillian A. Walker.
Feminists have always perceived wife abuse as just one of many manifestations of the unequal division of power between men and women. But as public awareness of the issue grew, government agencies began to take the issue over. They redefined wife-battering as a social problem for which professional...
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Walker, Gillian A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Family Violence and the Women's Movement : The Conceptual Politics of Struggle / Gillian A. Walker. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1990 1 online resource (270 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Women's Movement and the Relations of Ruling -- 2. The Entry Point: Raising the Issue of 'Wife-Battering' -- 3. Translating the Issue to the Purview of the State -- 4. Documents as Organizers -- 5. Discourse as Dilemma -- 6. The Concept of Violence -- 7. Particularizing the General -- 8. Hearing the Issue -- 9. Negotiating the Elements -- 10. Reporting for Action -- 11. Action and Reaction -- 12. Conceptual Practices and the Relations of Ruling -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Feminists have always perceived wife abuse as just one of many manifestations of the unequal division of power between men and women. But as public awareness of the issue grew, government agencies began to take the issue over. They redefined wife-battering as a social problem for which professional and legislative responses were appropriate solutions. They ignored its connection to more fundamental questions of male power. Gillian Walker systematically and empirically examines the process by which the issue of wife-battering was taken away from feminists and the women being abused. She has combined her own first-hand experiences as a feminist activist with a careful analysis of documents and with interviews of participants in various federal and provincial conferences and hearings. From this she shows how the experience of wife abuse became defined as part of the broader issue of family violence. The women who together started and shaped the transition-house movement today find their status changed. They are directed away from political action. Instead they are expected only to provide services in crisis shelters, increasingly monitored and under-funded, part of a broader network of services to ‘troubled families.’ Meanwhile, society fails to address the question of gender inequality as the root cause of wife-battering. Walker’s analysis of the conceptual processes involved in naming an ‘issue’ and defining a ‘social problem’ offers insights into the politics of social action generally. It speaks to the struggles of all grassroots activists. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Feminism Canada. Feminism. Wife abuse Canada. Wife abuse. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487574314 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487574314 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487574314.jpg |
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