#145 History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement
“There has been a brave and powerful women’s history of struggle and change which is in danger of being forgotten.”
Gill Hague has been a campaigner for women's rights for 50 years and has been involved in international projects across the world, from India and Uganda to Iraqi Kurdistan. For her life’s work on gender violence, she has received two national awards including the prestigious Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her life's work on violence against women
In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Gill discusses how her new book pulls back the curtain on the important part that many women’s activists, including herself, played in establishing the movement. Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by this generation of feminist pioneers. From the start of the women’s liberation movement until today, this book showcases the campaigning zeal on which policies, services and awareness-raising on male violence against women in the UK and across the world were built by the women of the liberation movement.
Gill Hague is Professor Emerita of Violence Against Women Studies at the University of Bristol and has been an activist, practitioner and researcher on violence against women nationally and internationally since the early 1970s. She was a founder of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol and has over 130 publications on violence against women including eight books.
Order now from the lovely people at Policy Press and receive a 20% discount!
