The challenge of violence against women should be recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community. This book examines how responses by the state sanction violence against women and shape a woman’s citizenship long after she has escaped from a violent partner.
Drawing from a long-term study of women’s lives in Australia, including before and after a relationship with a violent partner, it investigates the effects of intimate partner violence on aspects of everyday life including housing, employment, mental health and social participation.
The book contributes to theoretical explanations of violence against women by reframing it through the lens of sexual politics. Finally, it offers critical insights for the development of social policy and practice.
Table of Content
The sexual politics of gendered violence and women’s citizenship;
The problem of citizenship, violence and gender;
The challenges of researching gendered violence;
Living the connected effects of violence;
Gendered violence and the self;
Re-engaging lives;
The campaigns for women’s freedom from violence;
Tranforming sexual politics.
About the author
Donna Chung is Professor of Social Work at Curtin University. Her research interest in gendered violence has involved a number of national studies in Australia and the UK. She has worked as a consultant for governments on domestic and family violence policy and is an invited member of a number government and non-government committees involved with ending men’s violence.
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