Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Honouring Resistance: How Women Resist Abuse in Intimate Relationships is an excellent resource for women who have suffered intimate partner abuse, and folks who are supporting them. It uses the Response-Based Practice approach to violence, oppression and adversity. It gives a victim's story and then explains all the ways she resisted the abuse. Victims find it… Continue reading Honouring Resistance: How Women Resist Abuse in Intimate Relationships
With the introduction of laws which recognise coercive control and mental cruelty, it is time for the broader women’s movement to take a new position when working with clients who are living with or in contact with male intimate abusers. In taking a new position we must be fully informed about the problem. We must… Continue reading From Support to Protection — by Don Hennessy. We Need to Protect the Target Woman and Sanction her Abuser
