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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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