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

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments I can’t begin to articulate the appreciation I feel for the many people who have contributed in some way to the completion of this book. One of the many rewarding aspects of working on violence and gender is having the privilege to spend time with the amazing group of people who do this work. I am truly fortunate to have such brilliant friends, mentors, and colleagues. This book would not have been possible without help from Loretta Frederick, who sent me a huge box of photocopies from the Booth v. Hvass case almost ten years ago. I would like to thank Susan Boyd, Susan Caringella, Glynis Carr, Sarah Deer,Walter DeKeseredy, Myra Dinnerstein, Marc Dubin, Kim Eby, Marci Fukuroda, Shannon Garrett, Leigh Goodmark, Annika Gifford, Paula Gilbert, Barry Goldstein, Lisa Gring-Pemble, Barbara Hart, Mo Hannah, Lorna Irvine, Roger Lancaster, Anne Menard, Sue Osthoff, Ellen Pence, Mary Koss, Nancy Lemon, Yvette Lindgren, Joan Meier, Patti Jo Newell, MartySchwartz,DanSaunders,NatalieSokoloff,ZinaSantos,TaraShabazz, Rita Smith, Sue Tompkins, Rob Valente, Rebecca Walter, Joan Zorza, and everyone from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime, CAVNET and FIVERS. I would also like to thank Phyllis Deutsch, editor-in-chief at University Press of New England and Claire Renzetti, series editor for the Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law, for their patience, advice, and encouragement. A huge thank you is due to Kathryn Grover for her careful copyediting and suggestions, which have contributed greatly to the final manuscript. Thanks to Lori Miller, Barbara Briggs, Katy Grabill, Christine Hauck, Sherri Strickland, Deborah Forward, and David Corey at the University Press of New England for assistance with production and marketing. Thank you also to the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project for granting permission to reprint the power and control wheel. I look forward to continuing work in this area with all of you. Finally, I would like to thank Matt Brenner, Judy Dragiewicz, x | Acknowledgements Larry Dragiewicz, Marc Dragiewicz, Robert Carlson, and Shirley Carlson for all of their love and support. This book contains material adapted from earlier publications including Molly Dragiewicz 2008, “Patriarchy Reasserted: Fathers’ Rights and Anti-vawa Activism,” Feminist Criminology 3, 2: 121–44, and Molly Dragiewicz 2009,“Why Sex and Gender Matter in DomesticViolence Research and Advocacy,” in Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships, vol. 3, Criminal Justice and the Law, eds. Evan Stark and Eve S. Buzawa, pp. 201–16 (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger). Equality with a Vengeance ...