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
End word
Gill Hague is Professor Emerita of Violence Against Women Studies at the University of Bristol and has been an activist, practitioner and researcher on violence against women nationally and internationally since the early 1970s. She was a founder of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies at University of Bristol and has over 130 publications on violence against women including eight books. Hague has received both a CBE and an Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her life’s work on gender violence.
"(Hague's) account shows the considerable progress that feminists
have made in bringing the issue of violence against women to the
forefront of public attention, and subsequently in organising
innovative approaches for addressing this violence." Oral History
Society
"...a passionate and assiduous account of this arena." Morning Star
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