Signs of an Abusive Personality

Lydia Walker

Below is a list of behaviors seen in people who beat their partners. If the person has three or more of these behaviors, there’s indeed a strong potential for physical violence. In some cases, a batterer might have only a couple of behaviors that are quite strong (e.g., extreme jealousy). In the beginning of a relationship, the batterer will try to “explain” these behaviors as “love” and “concern”. However, as time goes on, these behaviors become more extreme and serve to establish, keep, and strengthen power and control over the victim.  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

Presentation : Keynote

Human Rights Framework for Addressing International Violence Against Women

Sheila Dauer, April 29, 2008

Human rights constitute a value system and a system of norms established by the international community that assumes the inherent dignity and equality of every human being. Human rights are an evolving body of international law beginning with the UDHR and the treaties and declarations that are derived from it. These agreements require governments to ensure that the conditions necessary for all people to fully enjoy their rights are met.
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Why Does She Stay? Why do any of us?

The decision to stay in a hazardous situation is often accepted as normal - as long as you're not talking about a "battered woman." But why do people stay in homes and even re-build after serious damage from forest fires, floods or volcano eruptions?  More

Report

Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids in the Classroom

The New York Times, July 31, 2008

Kids exposed to domestic violence definitely do have lower reading and math scores and greater disciplinary problems. But the effects of this dysfunction are not limited to the direct victims of this violence: kids exposed to kids exposed to domestic violence also have lower test scores and more disciplinary infractions.   More