Violence against women

Bibliographic Data

ID20050116
AuthorsSarah Browne (0000-0003-2002-9794, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-05-16
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWomen's Liberation Movement in Scotland (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherManchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7765/9781526112255.00016
OpenAlexW3149686742
ISBN9781526112255
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This chapter outlines the theoretical and practical responses to the issue of violence against women. Women's Aid (WA) was effective in expanding the reach of 1970s feminism. Internationally the women's liberation movement (WLM) played a leading role in theorising the issue of violence against women. Reclaim the Night (RTN) was a direct challenge to the commonly held argument that to avoid sexual assault women should remain indoors and avoid walking alone at night. RTN was also an effective method in mobilising women in other towns outside of the main urban centres of women's liberation politics. Inspired by the work of WA supporters, feminists established a Rape Crisis Centre (RCC) network in Scotland. RCC campaigners also tried to combat myths about rape. Although violence against women activists had been influenced by revolutionary feminist thinking, most of their actions were more directly aligned to a reformist agenda

Criminology · Feminism · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sexual violence · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Medicine

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