Women, Violence and Social Control

225 Pages·1987·20.356 MB·English

by  Jalna Hanmer, Mary Maynard (eds.)

Women, Violence and
Social Control
edited by
J alna Hanmer
Lecturer in Sociology and
Co-ordinator of Women's Studies
University of Bradford
and
Mary Maynard
Lecturer in Sociology and
Co-ordinator of Women's Studies
University of York
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
1 Introduction: Violence and Gender Stratification
Jalna Hanmer and Mary Maynard 1
2 Male Violence in Feminist Theory: an Analysis of the
Changing Conceptions of Sex/Gender Violence and
Male Dominance
Anne Edwards 13
3 Policing Male Violence - Policing Women
Jill Radford 30
4 The Continuum of Sexual Violence
Liz Kelly 46
5 Sex and Violence in Academic Life or You Can Keep a
Good Woman Down
Caroline Ramazanoglu 61
6 Women, Leisure and Social Control
Eileen Green, Sandra Hebron and Diana Woodward 75
7 Flashing: Its Effect on Women
Sandra McNeill 93
8 You Can't Commit Violence Against an Object:
Women, Psychiatry and Psychosurgery
Diane Hudson 110
9 Typical Violence, Normal Precaution: Men, Women
and Interpersonal Violence in England, Wales,
Scotland and the USA
Elizabeth A. Stanko 122
10 Legalising Woman Abuse
Lorraine Radford 135
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vi Contents
11 'Provoking Her Own Demise': From Common Assault
to Homicide
Susan S. M. Edwards 152
12 The Response of the British and American Women's
Movements to Violence Against Women
R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash
169
13 Masculinity and Violence
David H. J. Morgan 180
Bibliography 193
Index 210
List of Tables
4. 1 Women's experiences of sexual violence 53
8.1 Resident patients by sex and age, 1978-81 114
vii
List of Abbreviations
AllER All England Law Review
BSA British Sociological Association
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
NCADV National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NWAF National Women's Aid Federation
USCCR United States Commission on Civil Rights
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Notes on the Contributors
R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash are members of the
Department of Sociology at the University of Stirling. Since 1973 they
have been working with Scotish Women's Aid, conducted research on
violence against wives and have published extensively on the problem.
Their major work is Violence Against Wives. They are currently
completing a book comparing the British and North American
response to violence against women.
Anne Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia. Before going to Australia in 1968, she held
teaching and research positions in Newcastle and Durham. She is a
feminist sociologist whose main areas of teaching, research and writing
are women and gender, social theory and deviance/social control. Her
publications include Social Deviance in Australia, which she edited
with P. Wilson.
Susan S.M. Edwards is currently a Research Fellow at the Polytechnic
of Central London, where she is engaged in a study of domestic
violence and spousal homicide focusing on, amongst other things, the
response of the police and the courts. She also lectures on criminology,
medical sociology and women's issues courses. She contributes
regularly to law, sociological and medical journals, and is the author of
Female Sexuality and the Law (1981) and Women on Trial (1984), and
the editor of Gender, Sex and the Law (1985).
Eileen Green is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sheffield City
Polytechnic where she teaches joint courses with Diana Woodward in
women's studies and sociological. perspectives in the field of medicine.
Her past research includes a qualitative study of the working lives of
mothers employed on a part-time basis in various local industries in
Sheffield. She is currently researching women's leisure on a project
funded jointly by the Sports Council and the ESRC.
Jalna Hanmer is co-ordinator of the Dip/MA Women's Studies
(Applied) at the University of Bradford. She taught at the London
School of Economics from 1974 until moving north in 1977. Her main
areas of research and writing are on violence against women and the
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