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040			_aAFVC
100			_aParkinson, Debra _91865
245			_aWomen's experience of violence in the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires _cDebra Parkinson
246			_aA thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
260			_c2014
300			_aelectronic document; available online
500			_aPhD, Monash University
520			_aThis thesis documents the first Australian research to interview women about their experiences of domestic violence after catastrophic disaster. As such research is rare in developed countries, it addresses a gap in the disaster literature. Interviews with 30 women in two shires in Victoria confirmed that domestic violence increased following the Black Saturday bushfires on 7th February, 2009. The scant research that exists internationally indicates that not only is the notion of "women and children first" a myth, but that women are disproportionally affected by disasters primarily as a result of their poverty relative to men and prescribed gender roles. This research found that women experiencing increased male violence were silenced in preference of supporting suffering men – men who had been heroes in the fires or were traumatised or unemployed as a result of the disaster. The silencing was evident in the lack of statistics on domestic violence in the aftermath of Black Saturday, the neglect of this issue in recovery and reconstruction operations, and the responses to women's reports of violence against them by legal, community and health professionals. (from the author's abstract). Record #4702
650			_aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650		5	_9269 _aGENDER
650			_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431
650			_aMASCULINITY _9361
650			_aNATURAL DISASTERS _9400
650			_aTHESES _9606
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651		4	_aAUSTRALIA _92597
651			_aVICTORIA _93045
856			_uhttp://www.academia.edu/12540613/Women_s_experience_of_violence_in_the_aftermath_of_the_Black_Saturday_bushfires
942			_2ddc _cTHESIS
999			_c4702 _d4702