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A paper which considers domestic violence as a gendered issue, with specific reference to the historical role of women in society and the current government initiatives set up to deal with the issue. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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for instance, states that domestic violence is "physical, sexual, psychological or financial violence that takes place within an intimate or family-type relationship and that forms a pattern of coercive and
controlling behaviours" (Womens Aid, 2004, PG). Even though the concept of domestic violence has received much greater publicity, both in terms of academic analysis and policy-making, in recent years, it
is by no means a new phenomenon. In addition, if we consider it in terms of the relationship of gender to domestic violence, it is evident that for the most
part it is women who have formed the largest proportion of victims, although it is true that recent studies show that this is by no means exclusive since domestic violence
against men also exists. From the historical perspective, however, we need to consider the role of women in society as a whole in order to understand some of the reasons
why domestic violence has only been taken seriously in the comparatively recent past. If we look, for instance, at the lives of medieval women as
depicted by Chaucer, we find that they were in effect the property of men, with little chance of leading economically autonomous, independent lives. The Wife of Bath, with her financial
independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were dependent first on their fathers and later on
their husbands for support, and had almost no chance of setting up in business for themselves as the Wife of Bath does. This social system was firmly supported by the
religious cosmology of the time, which asserted that men were superior to women in all aspects of social culture; it was, therefore, considered acceptable for men to use whatever means
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