The fifth time he did it, I called the cops. They took their time arriving - I could have been dead by the time they showed up.
Shows that delayed police response directly endangered women.
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That first time I did tell somebody, although later I learned to keep quiet about it.
Reveals how hard it was for women in the 1970s to disclose abuse, even to trusted people.
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When I hear people say, "Why doesn't she leave him?", well, I want to scream
Shows the frustration survivors feel when society blames them rather than the abuser.
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I didn't have enough money to leave my husband when he started beating up on me.
Direct evidence contradicts the myth that women “choose” to stay.
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Almost a quarter of the cases in this Vancouver study contacted Vancouver Transition House.
This important statistic shows the scale of domestic violence and the need for shelters.
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Along with public education, the women's movement has demanded social, economic and legal changes which will make it easier for the battered woman to escape her husband
Shows the movement pushing for systemic reforms, not just individual solutions.
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The women's movement has consistently opposed the ideology of the church and of psychiatry which rationalizes the oppression of women.
Demonstrates how feminists challenged institutions that justified or excused male violence.
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TIME, in September of '74, professed to enlighten us on the subject of "Wife Beaters and Their Wives" by telling us that the men were 'mother's boys' and that the beaten women were "aggressive, efficient, masculine and sexually frigid"
This is an example of sexist media narratives that blame women for their own abuse.
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Throughout the last decade, feminists have been working upon public education to dispel myths surrounding wife- battering.
This shows how the movement used education and consciousness-raising as strategies to fight domestic violence.
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Women's economic dependence on males must be abolished and the family structure itself must be changed.
This links wife-battering to patriarchal structures and shows how feminists were pushing for change in this area.
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e- conomic dependence is a whole network of emotional and psychological relationships
This explains that dependency is not just financial, it’s also emotional, making abuse more complicated.
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Her skills, those of home maintenance and child rearing, are not skills which she can easily sell
The article argues that women’s domestic labour is devalued by society, limiting their economic options.
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Woman's position in the family as an unwaged worker
This shows how women's unpaid labour creates economic dependence, making it hard to leave their abusive partners.
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Both were seen as personal rather than social problems
violence is being reframed as systemic rather than an individual issue.
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Beaten women were forced into pretending that theirs was a non-problem.
This highlights how silence and shame kept women from speaking out and further reinforces the myth that abuse was rare.
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Until the women's movement raised the issue, wife-battering went unrecognized and unreported.
This shows that domestic violence wasn't considered a problem until feminists exposed it.
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