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More than refuge : changing responses to domestic violence / Suellen Murray.
Van Pelt Library HV6626.23.A8 M87 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Suellen.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues (Nedlands, W.A.)
- Contemporary issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nardine Women's Refuge (W.A).
- Women's shelters--Australia--Western Australia.
- Women's shelters.
- Australia.
- Western Australia.
- Women's shelters--Australia--Western Australia--Case studies.
- Family violence--Australia--Western Australia.
- Family violence.
- Women--Services for--Australia--Western Australia.
- Women.
- Women--Services for.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Crawley : University of Western Australia Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Making the personal political 1
- 1 From protection to empowerment: A background to feminist politics 9
- 2 Establishing a feminist refuge: Nardine as a 1970s response to domestic violence 21
- 3 Feminism in action: Philosophy and practice at Nardine 48
- 4 Making sense of domestic violence: History, discourse and lived experience 84
- 5 Breaking the silence: Responses to domestic violence in the 1980s 116
- 6 A police station, a post office and a women's refuge: Responses to domestic violence in the 1990s 153
- Conclusion: Doing themselves out of a job? 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1876268832
- OCLC:
- 51168183
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