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- 1985-2000 (Creation)
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8 large boxes (0.229 m³)
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Scope and content
Records of Aberystwyth Women's Aid Management Committee meetings, 1986-2000, divided into two boxes (1986-1996 and 1997-2000), together with general material relating to meetings, the latter kept in marked envelope.
One item included with the 16 July 1998 meeting records relates to Erin Pizzey, founder of the first shelters for abused women in and around London, who later significantly modified her views on domestic violence and became an advocate for men's rights.
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Records of meetings arranged chronologically. General matter relating to meetings arranged in no particular order.
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- English
- Welsh
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Erin Pizzey (b. 1939) established Chiswick Women's Aid (now the charity Refuge) in 1971, the first of many women's shelters to be set up by her in and around London. Pizzey later sparked a major backlash from women's groups after claiming that women in conflicting situations were just as prone to violence - if not more so - than their male partners and that violence within intimate relationships was a form of addictive learned behaviour derived from experiences of childhood trauma, a realisation which prompted Pizzey to thereafter campaign in support of men's rights movements such as ManKind Initiative and the US-based A Voice for Men.
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- Pizzey, Erin, b. 1939 (Subject)