2005/09/14 by Denise Webster, Erin C. Dunn · 3 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Blame #Child Abuse and Trauma #Criminology #Domestic violence #Gender studies #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Law #Medical emergency #Medicine #Poison control #Political science #Power (physics) #Psychology #Race (biology) #Scholarship #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #Sexual abuse #Sexual assault #Social issues #Social psychology #Sociology #Suicide prevention #Wife
paper · doi:10.1300/j015v28n03_06
openalex publication_date 2005/09/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
SUMMARY Feminist therapists, researchers, activists and scholars have long recognized that power differentials can have serious, sometimes fatal, consequences for women and children. Documenting the prevalence of problems such as rape, wife battering, and childhood sexual abuse, feminists began to dismantle social beliefs about gender, class and race that too often protect perpetrators of violence and blame victims for their own suffering. The authors cited (Burgess, Brownmiller, Herman, Koss, Harvey, NiCarthy, and Root) have combined scholarship with social activism to address the needs of the abused and develop social approaches to preventing violence.