1st Edition
What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women? Gendered Violence(s) in the Twenty-first Century
About the authors
Preface and acknowledgements
1 Then and now: Historical reflections on violence(s) against women
2 From wife battering to coercive control
3 From invisible children to victim-survivors in their own right
4 From homicide to femicide
5 What is in a name? Charting the changing presence of victim-survivor voices in criminal justice policy
6 Criminalisation and its consequences
7 ‘Thinking otherwise’: An experiment in progressing a whole of system reform agenda
8 Concluding thoughts: Invading the boy’s club
Index
Biography
Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia.
Sandra Walklate is Professor and Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.
"The authors take as their mission to explore and write the post 1983 version of Elizabeth Wilson’s book of the same name. Fitz-Gibbon and Walklate’s book challenges many of the policies and practices that have become standard response to violence against women and children, in Australia and internationally, over the past 40 years. The criminalisation of violence particularly is a major focus. Much was promised from this policy change, but the authors argue it has not delivered the hoped for outcomes. The criminalisation response if supported by an integrated policy response. the authors posit, has a much better chance of success.
The book is well researched, very readable and groundbreaking, it challenges the validity of current thinking – just what we need. Congratulations to the authors!"
Professor Christine Nixon AO. APM. Victoria Police, Chief Commissioner 2001–2009
