Chapter 1 Introduction: Violence and Gender Stratification

Chapter 2 Male Violence in Feminist Theory: an Analysis of the Changing Conceptions of Sex/Gender Violence and Male Dominance

Chapter 3 Policing Male Violence — Policing Women

Chapter 4 The Continuum of Sexual Violence

Chapter 5 Sex and Violence in Academic Life or You Can Keep a Good Woman Down

Chapter 6 Women, Leisure and Social Control

Chapter 8 You Can’t Commit Violence Against an Object: Women, Psychiatry and Psychosurgery

Chapter 9 Typical Violence, Normal Precaution: Men, Women and Interpersonal Violence in England, Wales, Scotland and the USA

Chapter 10 Legalising Woman Abuse

Chapter 11 ‘Provoking Her Own Demise’: From Common Assault to Homicide

Chapter 12 The Response of the British and American Women’s Movements to Violence Against Women

Chapter 13 Masculinity and Violence