"Domestic Tyranny is in every sense a pioneering work that not only raises provocative questions about the nature and scope of family violence but also probes the inherent difficulties in shaping remedies."About the AuthorAbout the Author: Elizabeth Pleck is a Research Associate at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. She is the author of Black Migration and Poverty and co-author of A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women. what are the best sites to download free ebooks Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This book is amazing. Extremely well researched and eloquently writtenBy sld7412This book is amazing. Extremely well researched and eloquently written. It's a must-have chronicle for anyone studying the making of public problems, social movements, and gender issues. Each chapter covers different periods of activism, pinpoints the key players, ties them into their time's ethos and politics, and describes the resulting policies from that period. Her arguments are solidly grounded in historical evidence, many of her references are primary and come stratight from court reports, convention speeches, and personal accounts of key figures involved in policy-making. Though it focuses on the US, it also chronicles developments in the UK from time to time, which is useful inasmuch as it shows similarities and contrasts between movements and politics across the Atlantic. I'm in the middle of a Phd in Gender Studies (thesis on the framing of gender violence by international organizations) and this book helped massively to contextualize the issue from a national perspective. I got it from my uni library but it's so useful I'm going to buy a copy just to have it around. I wish she could do a follow-up volume documenting the 90s and 2000s.