| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Australian History Ser |
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Australian History Ser
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| Contents |
Historicising a "national disgrace": towards a feminist history of domestic violence since 1788 / Zora Simic -- Discovering violence in the family / Tanya Evans -- Understanding economic abuse as domestic violence / Alana Piper -- "Your troubles are over, Mummy": prosecuting children who kill violent men / Lisa Durnian -- Uncovering a hidden offence: social and legal histories of familial sexual abuse / Andy Kaladelfos -- Criminalizing the husband and the home: marital rape law reform, 1976-1994 / Lisa Featherstone -- The "drover's boy" and indigenous women's unthinkable consent / Liz Conor -- Sex trafficking, labour migration, and the state / Rae Frances -- Gender-based violence in out-of-home care / Shurlee Swain -- "It was quite a scary time": lesbians and violence in post-war Australia / Rebecca Jennings -- "Laying siege and storming citadels": hostility and marginalisation in higher education / Tanya Fitzgerald -- From page to meme: the print and digital revolutions against gender violence / Ana Stevenson and Brigitte Lewis -- Feminist films on women's experiences of violence / Mary Tomsic -- Domestic violence activism in Victoria, 1974-2016 / Jacqui Theobold and Suellen Murray |
| Summary |
"In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have been assaulted physically; a fifth of all women have been assaulted sexually. Intimate partner violence is significantly more prevalent in Australia than Western Europe or North America. One woman each week is murdered by an intimate partner, and recent research suggests that nearly forty per cent of all women who suicide have a history of domestic or family violence. Domestic violence is a precipitating factor in a third of all homelessness. The resulting strain on government services and lost productivity means that family violence has been estimated as costing the Australian economy around $13.6 billion a year. The histories presented in this collection indicate exactly where these violent behaviours come from and how they have been rationalised over time, offering an important resource for addressing what amounts to a widespread, persistent, and urgent social problem" -- back cover |
| Subject |
Women -- Violence against -- Australia
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Women -- Violence against
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stevenson, Ana, editor
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| ISBN |
9781925835311 |
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1925835316 |
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9781925835328 |
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1925835324 |
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