“…One consequence of our feminist grounded theory study focusing on women leaving abusive partners (Merritt-Gray & Wuest, 1995;Wuest & Merritt-Gray, 1999, 2001b was that members of a community family violence committee who had helped us with our research called on us to help determine why their efforts to reduce woman abuse appeared to be ineffective. This led to a feminist participatory action study examining the meanings and responses to woman abuse in a rural context (Haddon, Merritt-Gray, Wuest, & HEAR Research Team, 2004). This was a lengthy, difficult, and rewarding process that brought together the perspectives and agency of diverse players and led to change as part of the research process, not just as a result of the findings (Wuest & Merritt-Gray, 1997).…”