Wider feminist principles and domestic violence: making a new world
Wider feminist principles and domestic violence: making a new world
This chapter continues the discussion of the underly principles of the domestic violence movement. It debates its foundation in ideas about self-determination and empowerment for women survivors/victims of violence. It documents the struggles in the movement against racism, oppression and inequality. It also asks if the movement was sometimes slightly idealistic in its attempts to flatten hierarchies and break down power differences between women of different backgrounds and between women using the services and those providing them. The chapter discusses the commitment of the movement to being women only (with the contradictions this involves) after the decision to exclude men from the mid-1970s on. The chapter also discusses the reasons for the end of most of the collectives after twenty or more years in the early 2000s. The chapter concludes with a poem celebrating the early work into the 1990s of Bristol Women’s Aid.
Keywords: self-determination, empowerment, power differences, end of collectives
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