Gender violence in Australia : historical perspectives / edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piper, Alana, editor.

Stevenson, Ana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Australia--History.

Sex role.

Marital violence--Australia.

Marital violence.

Women--Crimes against--Australia--History.

Women.

Sex role--History.

Violence--History.

Violence.

Equality--History.

Equality.

Abused wives.

Sex discrimination against women--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Wife abuse--Australia--History.

Wife abuse.

Intimate partner violence--Australia.

Intimate partner violence.

Family violence--Australia.

Family violence.

Women--Crimes against.

Women--Violence against--Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) ; illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2019]

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Challenging gender violence / Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson

SECTION I: Gender Violence in the Home

1. Historicising a "national disgrace": Towards a feminist history of domestic violence since 1788 / Zora Simic

2. Discovering violence in the family / Tanya Evans

3. Understanding economic abuse as domestic violence / Alana Piper

4. "Your troubles are over, Mummy": Prosecuting children who kill violent men / Lisa Durnian

5. Uncovering a hidden offence: Social and legal histories of familial sexual abuse / Andy Kaladelfos

6. Criminalising the husband and the home: Marital rape law reform, 1976-1994 / Lisa Featherstone

SECTION II: Gender Violence in the Community

7. The "Drover's Boy" and Indigenous women's unthinkable consent / Liz Conor

8. Sex trafficking, labour migration, and the state / Rae Frances

9. Gender-based violence in out-of-home care / Shurlee Swain

10. "It was quite a scary time": Lesbians and violence in post-war Australia / Rebecca Jennings

11. "Laying siege and storming citadels": Hostility and marginalisation in higher education / Tanya Fitzgerald

SECTION III: Activism against Gender Violence

12. From page to meme: The print and digital revolutions against gender violence / Ana Stevenson and Brigitte Lewis

13. Feminist films on women's experiences of violence / Mary Tomsic

14. Domestic violence activism in Victoria, 1974

2016 / Jacqui Theobald and Suellen Murray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925835-32-4

1-925835-31-6

OCLC:

1443085989