Main description:

Explores key challenges and dilemmas of service responses to men's domestic violence by interrogating the discursive constructions of gender and violence that underpin these.

Reflects upon domestic violence systems, services and responses in ways that reverse the convention of applying theory to practice by, instead, focusing on the theorisation of practice.

Promotes difficult conversations that challenge the influence of dominant gendered discourse on efforts to address domestic violence.

Considers new approaches to conceptualising the problem of domestic violence in research, policy, and practice.

Contents:

1.Introduction. 2.Violence and vulnerability: Who does what to whom? 3.Perpetrators and accountability: Invisible or ignored? 4.Men's change: Who is doing the work? 5.Why doesn't she leave? 6.What about the kids? 7.Why doesn't he leave? 8.Conclusion.