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Violence Against Women: A Key Determinant Of Health And Wellbeing, Michael Flood, L Walker, K Webster
Violence Against Women: A Key Determinant Of Health And Wellbeing, Michael Flood, L Walker, K Webster
Michael G Flood
No abstract provided.
Involving Men In Efforts To End Violence Against Women, Michael Flood
Involving Men In Efforts To End Violence Against Women, Michael Flood
Michael G Flood
Around the world, there are growing efforts to involve boys and men in the prevention of violence against women: as participants in education programs, as targets of social marketing campaigns, as policy makers and gatekeepers, and as activists and advocates. Efforts to prevent violence against girls and women now increasingly take as given that they must engage men. While there are dangers in doing so, there also is a powerful feminist rationale for such work. This article provides a review of the variety of initiatives which engage or address men in order to prevent violence against women. It maps such …
Reshaping Attitudes Toward Violence Against Women, Natalie Taylor, Michael Flood, Bob Pease, Kim Webster
Reshaping Attitudes Toward Violence Against Women, Natalie Taylor, Michael Flood, Bob Pease, Kim Webster
Michael G Flood
Since the early 1970s, when the grassroots women's movement mounted its challenge to rape and domestic violence, there has been a worldwide revolution in societal responses to violence against women. Among the changes, the best known are the proliferation of community-based services for victims and reforms in public policy, law, policing, and health care. What is less well-known is whether the revolution in societal intervention is reflected in how ordinary citizens think about violence against women. However important institutional reforms are in the short term, they are unlikely to be sustained unless the normative climate changes that supports violence against …
Violence Prevention With Men: Strategies And Challenges, Michael Flood
Violence Prevention With Men: Strategies And Challenges, Michael Flood
Michael G Flood
No abstract provided.
Building Men's Commitment To Ending Sexual Violence Against Women, Michael Flood
Building Men's Commitment To Ending Sexual Violence Against Women, Michael Flood
Michael G Flood
Efforts to prevent sexual violence against women and girls now increasingly take as given that they must engage men and boys. The theater-based intervention described in the previous issue of Feminism & Psychology (Rich, 2010) is one of a wave of programmes and strategies focused on males. Using that intervention as a springboard, this article asks : why should we engage men and boys in preventing violence against women, what strategies are under way and do they work? Educational interventions among males often invite them to become active or pro-social bystanders, taking action to stop the perpetration of specific incidents …
Rethinking The Significance Of 'Attitudes' In Challenging Men's Violence Against Women, Michael Flood, Bob Pease
Rethinking The Significance Of 'Attitudes' In Challenging Men's Violence Against Women, Michael Flood, Bob Pease
Michael G Flood
No abstract provided.