Review: Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives

Piper and Stevenson have assembled a terrific group of contributors at a range of career stages and the focus on gender violence, rather than a narrower framing of 'sexual violence' or 'domestic violence', has produced a wide-ranging collection that offers ample evidence of surgi...

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Published inAustralian humanities review no. 66; p. 1
Main Author Arrow, Michelle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bundoora Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) 01.05.2020
Subjects
Activism
Activists
Child abuse & neglect
Children
Collaboration
Domestic violence
Evidence
Families & family life
Feminism
Gender
Historians
Historical analysis
Investigations
Murders & murder attempts
Politics
Womens rights movements
Australia
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Summary:Piper and Stevenson have assembled a terrific group of contributors at a range of career stages and the focus on gender violence, rather than a narrower framing of 'sexual violence' or 'domestic violence', has produced a wide-ranging collection that offers ample evidence of surging scholarly interest in histories of gender violence. Drawing on a larger historical project in collaboration with family historians, Tanya Evans investigates the ways that stories of domestic violence uncovered in family history research can profoundly disrupt normative narratives about family life in both the past and present. Shurlee Swain re-reads the records of government inquiries into child abuse in institutional care settings against the backdrop of feminist activism to confirm that the patterns of abuse in these settings was gendered, even if it was not always presented that way in the media coverage of these inquiries. The book certainly shows how the heightened public discussion of domestic violence has been enormously generative for historical research, and it has encouraged many of us to think about how our research connects to a broader activist politics.
ISSN:1325-8338
1325-8338