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From ‘Battered Women’ To ‘Coercive Control’: Women’s changing experiences of domestic abuse in post-war Scotland.
Content warning: this blog post contains description of domestic abuse and sexual violence. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of this blog. He’d drive me to and from work and people would say “oh that’s great, he...
From Ardent Suitors To Domestic Tyrants: How domestic abuse survived Scotland’s not-so-swinging sixties
Content warning: this blog post contains description of domestic abuse and sexual violence. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of this blog. We went out for quite a while, a year, two years. Course I thought there...
The Visibility of Women In Scottish News Media.
Content warning: this blog post contains details of men’s violence against women that is at times graphic. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of this blog. As part of my degree in MSc Applied Gender Studies at the...
Children growing up with domestic abuse in Scotland from 1950s – 1980s
Content warning: this blog post contains description of domestic abuse, addiction and suicide. Please read with care – information on where to find support is listed at the end of this blog. Becoming a girl or a boy Scotland remained a deeply patriarchal...
How I started a Scottish domestic abuse oral history study and ended up with more than I bargained for.
By 2010 I had been working for ten years as part of the national effort to prevent domestic abuse in Scotland. In the first decade following devolution, myself and many others were involved in implementing the new Domestic Abuse Strategy (1999) and Preventing...
National Stalking Awareness Week
Content warning: this blog contains descriptions of stalking and abuse. Please read with care - information on accessing help and support can be found at the bottom of this blog post. In popular culture stalking is often portrayed as a scenario where a stranger...
Recruitment: Young Women and Girls Advisory Panel on Tackling Unhealthy Relationships
Do you want to get involved in making Scotland a happier, safer place for young women? Are you interested in learning more about feminist research? Would you like to a shape an exciting national digital campaign? If yes, this advisory panel opportunity is for you! We...
The Importance of Helplines
Guest post by Emma Duffy, University of Strathclyde As part of my degree in MSc Applied Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, I have been conducting a research project for Scottish Women’s Aid, mapping the appearance of domestic abuse in Scottish...
How survivors of domestic abuse made the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill happen
“Why should we have to move everywhere and everything because of him?” - Change, Justice, Fairness Report 2015. In May 2013, in a church hall in Kirkcaldy a group of women came to a meeting held by Scottish Women’s Aid to find out about a participatory research...
It’s Time We #ChooseToChallenge the Myths Around Domestic Abuse
Guest post by Emma Duffy, University of Strathclyde. As part of my degree in MSc Applied Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, I have been conducting a research project for Scottish Women's Aid, mapping the appearance of domestic abuse in Scottish...