More than refuge:Changing responses to domestic violence
Document Type
Book
Publisher
University of Western Australia Press
Place of Publication
Crawley, W.A.
Faculty
Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences
School
School of International, Cultural and Community Studies
RAS ID
375
Abstract
Women's refuges in the 1970s were lonely voices speaking out about violence in the home. They provided crisis accommodation, and refuge staff worked with women to empower them to take control of their lives. But refuges did more than deliver these important services: they worked to politicize domestic violence. Politicians and bureaucrats began to take notice from the 1980s and, over time, service responses have improved. Significantly, too, women's tolerance of violence has decreased.
In More than Refuge, Suellen Murray traces these changing responses to domestic violence, using Nardine Women's Refuge in Western Australia as a case study. She also reminds us that domestic violence flourishes within an environment of unequal gender power relationships and that, for this reason, its elimination will take more than a refuge
Comments
Murray, S. (2002). More than refuge : Changing responses to domestic violence (Contemporary issues). Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press.
ISBN: 9781876268831