Thread by @MichaelGLFlood

Feminist activism and scholarship in resisting and responding to gender-based abuse: We owe feminist activists and scholars a debt of gratitude, for identifying men’s violence against women as a social problem and for building community and legal responses to it. 1/5

Feminist advocacy, often by women of colour and/or lesbians, has had a series of successes. It has named a variety of forms of violence against women, and expanded recognition of perpetrators’ tactics (e.g. of coercive control) and means of perpetration (e.g. cyberstalking). 2/5

Feminist activism has had profound impacts on both community and legal system responses. There is still much room for improvement. There is backlash, resistance and victim-blaming among police, court officials such as judges, etc. And feminist debates over law and the state. 3/5

There has been an extraordinary growth in research on gender-based abuse. E.g., counting publications on intimate partner abuse: under 50 prior to 1980, 1,822 in the 1990s, 6,437 in the 2000s, and 14,725 in 2010-2018. 4/5

Belknap and Grant’s chapter (2020) provides a handy overview of feminist activism and scholarship in resisting and responding to gender-based abuse. In full text among the overviews on violence against women here:
xyonline.net/books/bibliogr… 5/5