“…In another instance, research on bilateral violence or violence perpetrated by females or reporting data suggesting that women initiate and carry out physical assaults on their partners as often as do men (Stith & Straus, ) appears to evoke a sense of betrayal among gender essentialists who highlight the fact that women are more likely to be severely injured by IPV than are men. Among some second‐wave feminists, there is fear in accepting the idea of men being abused by women and they read it as “feminist backlash” (Girard, ; Minaker & Snider, ). Perhaps their views are justified when DeKeseredy (), a feminist researcher in Canada, reports that:The Status of Women Canada (SWC) announced that women's organizations would no longer be eligible for funding for advocacy, government lobbying, or research projects.…”
Section: Gender Essentialism and Cultural Essentialismmentioning
In this article, we explore intimate partner violence (IPV) from an intersectional, feminist perspective. We describe how an updated feminist view guides us to a perspective on IPV that is more strongly grounded in an antioppressive, nonviolent, socially just feminist stance than a second‐wave gender‐essential feminist stance that suggests that patriarchy is the cause of IPV. At the time we began to work together it seemed that a researcher had to be identified as a “family violence” researcher or a “feminist” researcher of violence against women, and that it wasn't possible to be a feminist researcher who looked beyond patriarchy as the cause of IPV. We advocate critically thinking about essentialist practices in clinical work so that we can maintain an antioppressive, socially just, nonviolent approach to working with clients who experience IPV.
“…In another instance, research on bilateral violence or violence perpetrated by females or reporting data suggesting that women initiate and carry out physical assaults on their partners as often as do men (Stith & Straus, ) appears to evoke a sense of betrayal among gender essentialists who highlight the fact that women are more likely to be severely injured by IPV than are men. Among some second‐wave feminists, there is fear in accepting the idea of men being abused by women and they read it as “feminist backlash” (Girard, ; Minaker & Snider, ). Perhaps their views are justified when DeKeseredy (), a feminist researcher in Canada, reports that:The Status of Women Canada (SWC) announced that women's organizations would no longer be eligible for funding for advocacy, government lobbying, or research projects.…”
Section: Gender Essentialism and Cultural Essentialismmentioning
In this article, we explore intimate partner violence (IPV) from an intersectional, feminist perspective. We describe how an updated feminist view guides us to a perspective on IPV that is more strongly grounded in an antioppressive, nonviolent, socially just feminist stance than a second‐wave gender‐essential feminist stance that suggests that patriarchy is the cause of IPV. At the time we began to work together it seemed that a researcher had to be identified as a “family violence” researcher or a “feminist” researcher of violence against women, and that it wasn't possible to be a feminist researcher who looked beyond patriarchy as the cause of IPV. We advocate critically thinking about essentialist practices in clinical work so that we can maintain an antioppressive, socially just, nonviolent approach to working with clients who experience IPV.
“…These claims have not been without impact (Minaker & Snider 2006). Indeed, especially in family law arenas, men's advocates' arguments have shaped legislative compromises (Boyd, 2003;Boyd & Young, 2002;Mann, 2005;Rhoades & Boyd, 2006).…”
This article examines government and advocacy group texts on three recent Canadian domestic violence policy moments. Drawing on governance, feminist poststructuralist, and social movement perspectives, it examines men's rights advocates' and feminists' discursive actions and their influence on officials. The research aim is to explore the provisional, intrinsically incomplete, and indeed questionable success, to date, of Canadian anti-domestic violence advocates' strategies and tactics of resisting men's advocates' efforts to delegitimize gendered constructions of domestic violence. At the level of political action, the article contributes to efforts by feminists internationally to safeguard protections and supports for abused women and children in a political context marked by the increasingly prominent influence of men's rights and associated antiprogressive backlash.
“…Here there is a paradoxical, new focus on the victimization of males by female perpetrators. The following popular books, among others, proclaim this message: Cook [17] In an appropriately critical article, entitled "Husband Abuse: Equality with a Vengeance," Canadian criminologists Minaker and Snider [22] draw on the facts to disprove the false claims that men and women are equally prone to violence. They demonstrate how the very successes of feminism, combined with neo-conservative governance, the burgeoning power of men's movements, and new communications media, have given rise to a frightening turnabout in national ideologies and practices.…”
Section: Us Media Attacks On Feminismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the feminist criminology literature (for example, see [14,22,33]), we learn of the following examples of punitive policies. Especially relevant to poor and minority women in the U.S. are the following:…”
Section: Backlash Against Women In the Us Criminal Justice Systemmentioning
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