Type:	Book Chapter
Title:	Just outcomes for women?: state responses to violence against women
Other Titles:	Women, public policy and the state
Authors:	Fitzroy, Lee
Keywords:	Policy
Year:	1999
Publisher:	Macmillan Education, South Yarra
Notes:	Critically examines how the State responds to domestic violence, highlighting the need for recognition of the phallocentric, anglocentric and capitalistic context within which such responses arise and the intersectional nature of many women’s experience of oppression. A ‘snapshot’ of available research on the incidence, prevalence and nature of violence against women is provided, followed by a brief chronological account of the major achievements of the women’s movement in pushing violence against women onto public and political agendas. Examples of State (Victorian) and Federal policy (‘Partnerships against Domestic Violence’) and funding commitments in relation to domestic and family violence are then presented, followed by a critique of those services as they are currently being implemented. It is argued that the dominant ideology informing current State responses to violence against women is not feminist but neo-conservative and lacking in recognition of the gendered nature of violence, the structural causes of disadvantage and the role of social myths and beliefs in men’s decision to perpetrate violence against their families.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11205
ISBN:	9780732955311
Physical description:	viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Book Chapters

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