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This two-page document offers information on curricula and manuals, online training, special journal editions, videos and websites.

This document lists questions to help guide an analysis of reforms and is based on Susan Schechter’s Women and Male Violence (1982).

This article explains how failing to address multiple oppressions of poor women of color jeopardizes the validity and legitimacy of the anti-violence movement.

The page is useful to underscore the importance of assessing policy for its effects on battered women and their families living in poverty and the need to provide relevant and respectful advocacy and resources.

It provides a rich inventory of strategies for use in mobilizing the public will through an integration of models of agenda building, social problem construction, issues management, social movements, media advocacy, and social capital. In addition, the paper provides cases and examples of public will campaigns directed at various social problems, along with criteria for evaluating these campaigns at various stages of a social problem's life cycle." Numerous case examples include a perspective on VAWA.

The report explains how a person's degree of Belief in a Just World (a psychological concept describing an individual's belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get) affects whether they tend to blame others for attempts made to improve their situation. The research finds that a person with a strong belief in a just world tends to believe that a woman is less deserving the more steps she takes to improve her situation, i.e. blaming the victim. Conversely, those with a weak belief in a just world find women more deserving the more efforts they make.

Advocates will find this excerpt useful for grounding their work in political feminist theory, resisting the claim that one is anti-male, and that race and class are integral components in analyzing sexism and working to transform sexist culture underpinning domestic violence.

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Leadership for Policy Change draws on interviews with more than 100 leaders from the public sector, private industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations; a scan of 72 leadership development programs; and an extensive review of current leadership development literature. The report describes the barriers to participation of leaders of color in local and national public policy development and the strategies that can be used to remove the barriers so that leaders can use their expertise and experience to benefit low-income communities of color and the nation.

This document provides analysis on 33 articles from academia and the sexual violence prevention field regarding multiple aspects of sexual violence in later life.