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Kelly, I did write a chapter on the history of the anti-rape movement  
(thanks John!) and would be happy to send you a copy if you send me  
your address. It was part of a larger work called "Support for  
Survivors: Training for Sexual Assault Counselors" produced by  
CALCASA. It's a history from the mid-1880's to the present but may  
lack specific dates you are looking for. I recall another publication  
that did a timeline with specific dates. I'll hunt around my various  
files and see if I can find that too.

Best,

Gillian

Gillian Greensite
Director, UCSC Rape Prevention Education




On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:05 AM, 

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> Can anyone provide some resources to assist in creating a historical
> timeline on the efforts to raise awareness, advocacy, policy and laws
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> Dear colleagues;
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> In response to requests for ideas for sexual assault awareness  
> campaign
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> I was recently at a conference where I had a chance to see a one-woman
> show about rape on campus.? it's called T-O-T-A-L-L-Y - and was  
> written
> and performed by Kimleigh Smith.
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> Kimleigh Smith is a Hollywood actress.? Her play brilliantly addresses
> her experience being raped, coping, healing and ultimately  
> thriving.? It
> is hard to describe in simple terms, but I can say that there were  
> a few
> college students in the audience and they all ran to invite her to  
> their
> campuses.
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> Here's where you can learn more.
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> totallykimleigh.com
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> Her email address is:
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> Wendy Murphy
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> I think Gillian Greensite wrote a historical piece about the movement.
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> Date:    Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:38:55 -0500
> From:    Linda Green 
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> Subject: APPEAL to rally in support of feminist community-based  
> anti-violence practice
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> Hello,
> This is an alert which is I hope will reach feminists and allies in  
> the academy and feminists and allies in the community alike. It is  
> an appeal to feminists in the academy to advance research that  
> supports feminist and anti-colonial community-based anti-violence  
> work against intensifying attacks which are disqualifying both  
> those practices and feminist and anti-colonial accounts of violence  
> against women. In the past I have been heard cautioning against the  
> appropriation of community-based knowledge and advocating for  
> activist-led research (against university-led research) that  
> documents and promote community-based practices. I continue to  
> sound these cautionary notes. And I also see a clear role for  
> feminist academic and student researchers in supporting of the  
> continuation of feminist and anti-colonial practices. Feminists in  
> the academy are well positioned given their location in  
> universities to support community based practice against the  
> growing threats posed by high pr
>  ofile anti-feminist researchers and lobbyists. Many feminists in  
> the academy have the tools to formulate a wall of evidence and  
> argument to respond to these threats.
>
> The work of psychologist Don Dutton (and a considerable number of  
> others who think like him) provides a clear and present example of  
> the rising threat to feminist (and less visibly but no less so anti- 
> colonial) antiviolence work both in Canada and the US. Dutton uses  
> piles of so-called evidence to support his argument that feminist  
> antiviolence practice is unethical and that it may be a form of  
> malpractice. Yes, he says this in those very words! Dutton argues  
> that  feminist accounts of violence against women don't deserve to  
> be called social theory since feminism is an ideology that doesn't  
> account for much that we might ask about violence, and over  
> generalizes based on what is he claims are only a minority of cases  
> of violence against women. Dutton's appeals to those in psychology  
> to overturn feminist "ideology" with a revival of psychology and  
> science are apparently starting to work on some of those who have  
> been feminist allies in the past.
>
> This all spells bigger trouble. Dutton got a lot of airtime with  
> his 2007 book Rethinking Domestic Violence, but he's been producing  
> work of this kind for years. The timing on this should be a concern  
> because in Canada we have a government that may actually be willing  
> to be convinced by this stuff. In Canada, Dutton's findings are  
> being used by REAL Women to lobby government to withdraw funding  
> from feminist antiviolence work.
>
> It may interest those in law to learn that Dutton's work also  
> questions legal practice in this area. One can only guess that he  
> may begin working on (and turning the heads of) some of those in  
> law, as he appears to be doing in psychology.
>
> I want to point out from the outset something that I didn't see  
> when I first began thinking about, namely that Dutton invites us to  
> deploy a hegemonic white feminist lens in response which  
> marginalizes antiracist and anti-colonial practices. In countering  
> his claims and the influence of his work, this invitation must be  
> refused.
>
> For a longer list of Dutton's publications (although this is not an  
> all-inclusive list): http://www.drdondutton.com/listof.htm
>
> A few recent examples:
>
> The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and practice.  
> Part 11:
> The information website of the American Bar Association. Aggression  
> and Violent Behavior.
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> Dutton, D.G. (2008) My back pages: Reflections on thirty years of  
> domestic violence research. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 9 (3), 131  
> -143).
>
> Dutton, D.G. & Corvo, K. (2007) The Duluth Program: A flawed and  
> data - impervious paradigm. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 22  
> (6), 658 -667.
>
> Dutton, D.G. (2007). Rethinking Domestic Violence. University Of  
> Vancouver, British Columbia: British Columbia Press.
>
> Dutton, D.G., & Corvo, K. (2006). Transforming a flawed policy: A  
> call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research  
> and practice.
> Aggression and Violent Behavior 11, 5, 457-483.
>
> Dutton buries his readers under mountains of evidence that he uses  
> to argue among other things that most intimate partner violence is  
> bilateral and that in most cases women are aggressive themselves  
> and choose aggressive partners (i.e. they ask for it). Dutton uses  
> also draws evidence from a number of official Canadian and US  
> social surveys to argue that most violence is bilateral, only a  
> minority of couples (about 10%) in which violence occurs are male  
> dominant, extreme violence occurs in an smaller percentage of  
> couples, and women are  responsible for a good proportion of that  
> extreme violence.
>
> There are a small handful of vigilant academics who are following  
> and taking work like Dutton's on and I am appealing to feminists  
> and also students looking for research/thesis topics to join them  
> in doing so because I (and others) believe that together with  
> concerted action on this, part of what is needed is a veritable  
> wall of counter evidence and counter argument to fight Dutton's  
> growing influence and the influence of his peers. Molly Dragiewicz  
> at UOIT is one of the feminists who has taken the fight on in the  
> last few years. She and Walter Keseredy and a handful of others  
> have taken up the fight and are continuing to push back. Ed Gondolf  
> published an article recently presenting the evidence for Duluth  
> against Dutton and Gondolf's has been working in this area for years.
> Feminists in the antiviolence movement have been discussing the  
> kinds of arguments Dutton presents for forever and have been  
> pressing for organized action on this - they are pressing now for  
> this now also. (For a list of those who have joined the fight whose  
> work I am aware see the end of this message). It concerns me that  
> I'm not seeing more published feminist criticisms of Dutton  
> emerging since the threat  his work poses is all too real.
>
> I see an opportunity for feminists and their allies in the academy  
> - academics and students both - to rally in countering the research  
> of Dutton and others whose work is taking a similar tack. In so  
> doing, in critiquing the use of evidence, in critiquing the tools  
> of data collection that produce such findings, in pressing for and  
> demanding changes in those data collection tools so that the  
> findings produced reflect women's realities, and in fighting the  
> authority claimed by Dutton based on his location in the academy  
> with their own authority based on that location, feminists in the  
> academy can join the fight to hold the space open for frontline  
> feminist violence work, which is in so many ways besieged today.  A  
> paper Mandy Bonisteel and I wrote (link below) discusses some of  
> the challenges.
> http://www.crvawc.ca/documents/ 
> ShrinkingFeministSpace_AntiViolenceAdvocacy_OCT2005.pdf
>
> And I must repeat the cautionary note I sounded above, which is  
> that Dutton invites us back into a hegemonic white feminism that  
> marginalizes antiracist and anti-colonial practices in our narrow  
> focus on gender alone in discussion of community-based anti- 
> violence practices. In countering Dutton and others, this  
> invitation to reoccupy a hegemonic white feminist position and  
> deploy a hegemonic white feminist analysis must be refused.
>
> Dutton, D.G. & Corvo, K. (2007) The Duluth Program: A flawed and  
> data-impervious paradigm. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 22 (6),  
> 658 -667.
>
> 2008 *Dutton, D.G. (2008) My back pages: Reflections on thirty  
> years of domestic violence research. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 9  
> (3), 131 -143).
>
> The Duluth Model is being targeted for attack as a very visible  
> example of feminist community-based practice in violence against  
> women. Dutton argues that Duluth is only a relevant model for work  
> with a small minority of women and that since psychological factors  
> account for most violence, psychotherapy other psychological couple/ 
> family interventions are indicated. In some of his work he uses the  
> findings of psychotherapy literature to argue that a feminist  
> account of violence against women doesn't allow those working with  
> perpetrators to form a therapeutic bond, which is according to the  
> psychotherapy literature indispensable to positive outcomes in  
> psychotherapy. I've heard this argued locally too from some of  
> those who  promote a narrative therapy approach to work with
> batterers - this is something which is becoming increasingly common.
>
> The issues are recognized as serious enough in the United States  
> that recently there was a discussion online about the theoretical  
> basis and research evidence that supports the Duluth model. I could  
> in another message post information about that discussion and a  
> short list of a few references which are examples of feminist and  
> profeminist work that refutes Dutton and the arguments of others  
> like Dutton who would if they could reduce the credibility of and  
> support for feminist antiviolence practices.
>
> Linda Green
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