Pages tagged with Men's violence against women

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    Action Alert

    Mothers Deserve More

    May 10, 2009

    Mothers may be invisible to the mainstream media, but Stop Family Violence sees you. And we know that for many of you, this day is not easy. This year, instead of the card buying, candy giving, flower filled frenzy that Mother’s Day has become let’s truly honor Mothers by making visible your plight, your efforts, your stories and your dreams for Mothers everywhere. We'll send your comments to the President, VP, Cabinet Members and your members of Congress.
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  • Letter to Editor

    Coffee, Tea and Domestic Violence

    Your article, “Some Link Economy With Spate of Killings” (April 8, pg. A03), makes a much appreciated effort to look at the staggering numbers of murder-suicides in the last few weeks as not just isolated incidents, but symptoms of a bigger problem. The trouble is it missed naming the problem.   More

  • Feminist Analysis

    Now you see it, now you don't: the state of the battered women's movement

    Off Our Backs

    Depoliticization has moved the discussion of domestic violence away from a structural, social analysis of the dynamics of interests and power and resituated it in the realm of individual behaviors and pathologies of victims and perpetrators.  More

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    Opinion

    Why Are We Surprised When White Preppy Guys Turn Out to Be Murderers?

    Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Official Blog, May 5, 2009

    Over and over again, coast to coast, American media outlets told us how good-looking, smart and "normal" Markoff was. The hidden code in the news coverage of Markoff was clear: tall, young white guys, especially middle-class or wealthy ones in college, just don't do stuff like this. Except that they do. The United States has produced more serial killers than any other nation on earth, and 85 percent of them have been white men.  More

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    Opinion

    52 Days of Domestic Violence Flu in America

    Family Justice Center Alliance, May 4, 2009

    This week the news is consumed with coverage of the swine flu, an important public health issue in America. As of May 2, there have been 167 confirmed cases of the swine flu in the United States and one death. But there has been little news about the mass killings of 68 people across America in the last 52 days, with men doing all the killing and virtually all related to men with a history of violence against women.  More