Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash

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147 Index “account-keeping” mindset of abusers, 76 Adams, David, 72, 75 addiction and abuse, minimizing techniques, 72 advocacy research, 5 Alvarez, Alexander, 55 androgyny, 106–7 antifeminist groups/discourses: avoidance of men-on-men violence issue, 117; background of groups, 13–18; co-opting of civil rights movement, 15, 32; and decontextualization technique, 64; defined, 50; family law focus of, 122; framing of woman abuse, 50–60; and gender essentialism, 108; gender-neutrality position, 2, 4, 21–22, 51–52; overview, 1–4; parroting of batterer narrative techniques, 120; patriarchy defense, 11, 14–15, 22–24, 26. See also Booth v. Hvass; sex symmetry claims Armstrong, Louise, 5 Bachman, Ronet, 99 Balos, Beverly, 44 Barnett, Maxine, 45 Bart, Pauline, 85 “The Battered Data Syndrome: A Comment on Steinmetz’s Article” (Pleck et al.), 85 “The Battered Husband Syndrome” (Steinmetz), 85 Battered Wives (Dobash and Dobash), 85 battered women’s movement: and cultural contextualization of violence, 40–42; fathers’ rights groups’ opposition to, 16–17; focus on safety from violence, 14; historical perspective, 126n5; legal attacks on, 3; and social ecology, 83; success of, 123 battered women’s shelters, 3, 22, 26–29, 45–46, 99, 119. See also Booth v. Hvass batterers/batterer narratives: antifeminist parroting of, 120; contributing factors to violence, 78–80; denial in, 66–68; excuses in, 72–73; and gender role expectations, 38, 76–77, 79, 110, 113, 117; introduction, 61–66; justification in, 72, 74–76, 79; masculinity norms in, 61–62, 68, 71, 76–77, 79; minimization in, 68–72; patriarchy in, 61, 63, 76–78; typical characteristics of, 38; typification of violence in, 24–25; victim-blaming attitudes in, 74–79 Beach Communications Inc., FCC v., 32–33 Berns, Nancy, 50 Biden, Joseph, 12 Blake, Steven, 22–23, 69 Bograd, Michele, 68, 103 148 | Index Booth v. Hvass: antifeminist basis for, 118–19; decontextualizing of woman abuse, 57, 60; defense response to plaintiffs’ case, 43–48; denial of violence, 67; equal protection arguments in, 31–34, 43–48, 126n1; evidence from plaintiffs, 34–43, 88; focus on battered women’s services, 22; minimization of violence, 69; overview, 1–4, 26–29; popular discourses on gender as source of, 49; sex symmetry argument by plaintiffs, 29–31, 87–93; similarity to batterer narratives in, 62; victim blaming by plaintiffs, 78 Bowker, Lee, 113–14 Breines, Wini, 50, 55 Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 19, 20 Browne, Angela, 96 Bybee, Deborah, 99 Campbell, Jacqueline, 95 Carter, Jimmy, 12 Catalano, Shannan, 99 Central Minnesota Task Force on Battered Women, 45 change over time (chronosystem) in gender-based violence, 20, 111 Chesler, Phyllis, 13–14 child abuse, 38 child care and gender inequality, 110, 123 child support, enforcing payment of, 15–18 Chrisler, Joan, 104 civil rights movement, antifeminists’ co-opting of, 15, 32 common couple violence, 91–92 community factors in gender-based violence, 20, 39, 51, 66, 109–10. See also social norms Condit, Celeste, 9, 55 Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS), 64, 89–90, 102 Confronting Domestic Violence, 37–39 Connell, R. W., 14–15 Consalvo, Mia, 57, 59 crime and deviance discourses, 13, 55–59 CTS (Conflict Tactics Scales), 64, 89–90, 102 cultural factors in gender-based violence, 20, 79, 109, 111–12. See also social norms Current Controversies in Family Violence, 42, 87, 88 Daly, Martin, 95–99 Daniele, Antoinetta, 97 Davis, Angela, 56 decontextualization of violence, 43, 51, 54–57, 60, 64, 79–80 defendant-intervenors, defined, 43 defense response in Booth v. Hvass, 43–48 DeKeseredy, Walter, 24, 86, 92, 100, 114–15 denial, surrounding domestic abuse, 66–68 depoliticization of violence, 51, 57–58, 60, 79–80 discourses, social: popular discourses on woman abuse, 2–3, 12, 49–60; as social control mechanism, 3, 12. See also antifeminist groups/discourses; feminism; patriarchy discrimination: vs. difference in situation and 14th Amendment, 32–33; men’s claims of, 27, 37–38, 40–42 divorce law reform, 15 divorce/separation assault, 98, 99 Dobash, R. Emerson, 9, 81, 82, 85, 96, 113 Dobash, Russell, 9, 80–82, 85, 93, 96, 102, 113 Index | 149 Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, 34–36 domestic violence: Confronting Domestic Violence booklet’s perspective, 37–39; men’s invisibility as perpetrators in discourse, 58, 64; politics of, 14, 30, 49, 120; private dispute vs. public social problem, 13, 29–30, 47–48, 110; terminology issues, 8–10. See also intimate partner violence...