Feminist Developments In Violence And Abuse

This series provides a feminist forum for academic work that pushes forward existing knowledge around violence and abuse informing policy and practice with the overarching objective of contributing towards ending violence and abuse within our society. In this series it enables academics practitioners policymakers and professionals to continually build and explore their understanding of the dynamics from the micro to the macro level that are driving violence and abuse. The study of abuse and violence has a large scope for co-producing research with a broad range of stakeholders particularly those working in grassroots domestic and sexual violence organisations police prosecutors lawyers campaign groups housing victim services. As violence and abuse research reaches across disciplinary boundaries the series content will be interdisciplinary. Research impact is at the heart of this series.

As well as covering gender and violence broadly (e.g. domestic violence and abuse sexual violence stalking harassment child abuse and abuse against older people) we anticipate the following key topic areas will be captured by this series:

• Domestic violence and the housing sector
• Social science approaches to victim blaming
• Rape myths and stereotypes
• Feminist legal reform/legal challenges
• Pornography
• Violence against women in public spaces
• Image-based sexual abuse
• Violence against women in online spaces
• Law and policy developments