Equality with a vengeance : men's rights groups, battered women, and antifeminist backlash

This book investigates efforts by fathers’ rights groups to undermine battered women’s shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v. Hvass, in which fathers’ rights groups attempted to use an Equal Protection claim to argue that funding emergency services that target battered women is discriminatory against men. As Dragiewicz shows, this case (which was eventually dismissed) is relevant to widespread efforts to promote a degendered understanding of violence against women in order to eradicate policies and programs that were designed to ameliorate harm to battered women.

Tactics of antifeminist backlash against the U. S. battered women's movement

Opposition to men’s violence against women who are their intimate partners has become politically popular in the United States. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has enjoyed broad-based support for over 15 years. VAWA has been refined and expanded with each reauthorization. Resistance to the battered women’s movement is often overlooked in this political context. However, woman abuse and state responses to it are mired in cultural tensions about crime, law, gender, economics, scholarship, and the family. Based on interviews with 35 advocates in the United States, this paper outlines key tactics of antifeminist backlash against the battered women’s movement.

Under the rule of thumb : battered women and the administration of justice /

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CASA, new directions, a program model for battered women : citizens assisting and sheltering the abused (CASA) /

Mode of access: Internet.

Programs providing services to battered women /

Description based on: 3rd ed., 2nd revision (June 1980)

Margo St. James, President of the San Francisco Prostitute Union, at the Battered Women's conference

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Survival House for battered women

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Battered women t-shirt at International Women's Year march

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Battered women sign at International Women's day demonstration

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Battered Women conference

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Crimes Against Women conference with Pauline Haines, International Indian Treaty Council; Sandy Ramos, N.J. Battered Women's Safe House Founder; and Daphne Busby, Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Battered woman describing and showing her fear of her husband taken at battered women's safe house in New Jersey. Digital reproduction

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.