@article{Leeder_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={HOW THE FIELD HAS CHANGED: FAMILY VIOLENCE IN A RECENT HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/how-the-field-has-changed-family-violence-in-a}, abstractNote={ In 1980 I began teaching a course on Battered Women at Ithaca College with the then director of the local battered women’s shelter. The field was quite narrow then, with little materials available except for the handouts and flyers that were produced by activists who were setting up such shelters around the country. In those days we used Lenore Walker’s The Battered Woman, as a text, as well as Del Martin’s Battered Wives. It was actually easier to teach the course then, because of such few materials. We also invited students to participate in trainings and activism in the field during those days, so activism was part of the curriculum. The course practically ran itself for over 10 years, just as it had from the beginning, with components on wife battering, marital rape, and a small section debunking the myths on battered husbands. The course built on the work begun by child abuse activists and researchers, but was still very specific to the two major forms of abuse: wife battering and child abuse. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Leeder, Elaine}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }