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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452626603321

Autore

Pizzey Erin

Titolo

This way to the revolution : a memoir / / Erin Pizzey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Peter Owen, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-7206-1521-6

0-7206-1523-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

323.34092

Soggetti

Social reformers - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Dedication; Note on the Text and Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; In the Beginning 1; This Way to the Revolution 2; Sisterhood Is Powerful 3; Taking on the Sisterhood 4; The Sisterhood Fights Back 5; Protests and Bombs 6; Goodbye to the Sisterhood 7; Making a Dream Come True 8; Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher 9; Chiswick Women's Aid Opens Its Doors 10; Dreams Become Nightmares 11; Somewhere to Go 12; The Cycle of Violence 13; Love - or Addiction? 14; Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear 15; Charity or Empire? 16; Men Can Be Victims, Too 17

Parting of the Ways 18 Sisters Under the Skin 19; The Bam Bam Club 20; Pleasure or Pain? 21; Acton Magistrates' Court 22; There Are No Tidy Solutions 23; The Great and the Good Come on Board 24; 'The More You Beat Them the Better They Be' 25; Lunch on Capitol Hill 26; Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb 27; Sup with the Devil with a Long Spoon 28; My Refuge Sutton Courtenay 29; The Boys' House 30; Grandma 31; The Palm Court Hotel 32; Doing Well by Doing Good 33; The House of Lords' Decision 34; Jenny Johnson Makes History 35; Danny Flies In 36; Back to the Magistrates' Court 37

Against Judge's Orders 38 Chiswick Children Go to Greece 39; Contempt of Court 40; Running Round the Bend 41; Goodbye to the Refuge 42; Afterword; Index; Copyright; Back Cover



Sommario/riassunto

In 1971 Erin Pizzey set up the world s first refuge for battered women and their children. 40 years later, she describes the battles she was forced to fight: against the establishment, the church, the courts, and not least, the women s movement. She also describes her own troubled childhood, her discovery of feminism and her political activism, including her coinage of an abiding epithet for Margaret Thatcher: Milk Snatcher