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Family violence and the women's movement : the conceptual politics of struggle / Gillian A. Walker.

Title
Family violence and the women's movement : the conceptual politics of struggle / Gillian A. Walker.
Author
Walker, Gillian, 1940-
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1990.

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Description
viii, 260 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Family violence > Political aspects > Canada
  • Family violence > Political aspects
  • Feminism > Canada
  • Feminism
  • Spouse Abuse
  • Wife abuse > Canada
  • Wife abuse > Political aspects > Canada
  • Wife abuse > Political aspects
  • Wife abuse
  • Women's Rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references ([241]-250) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The women's movement and the relations of ruling -- The entry point: raising the issue of "wife-battering" -- Translating the issue to the purview of the state -- Documents as organizers -- Discourse as dilemma -- The concept of violence -- Particularizing the general -- Hearing the issue -- Negotiating the elements -- Reporting for action -- Action and reaction -- Conceptual practices and the relations of ruling.
ISBN
  • 0802027407 (bound) :
  • 0802067824 (pbk.)
  • 080206782X (pbk.) : (canceled/invalid)
  • 080206782X (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
cn^90094195^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library