What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women?

by Elizabeth Wilson

256 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 1983

About the author

Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer in the development of fashion studies, and has been a university professor, feminist campaigner and activist. Her writing career began in the ‘underground’ magazines of the early 1970s, (Frendz, Red Rag, Spare Rib, Come Together) before she became an academic. She's written for the Guardian and her non-fiction books include Adorned in Dreams (1985, 2003), The Sphinx in the City (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), Bohemians (2000) and Love Game (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including War Damage (2009) and The Girl in Berlin (2012) (long listed for the Golden Dagger Award).

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Reviews

[layla raik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Neutral rating because it is difficult to impose my own opinion on such a factual book. This book is centred around feminism and the patriarchy in the 80s. I naively expected it to be an outdated read where I would simply marvel at how horrible things were for women in the past, but it was more contemporary than one would like to admit. It's a pretty comprehensive read into feminist history though. And very heartbreaking of course to realise just how much work remains to be done to liberate women worldwide