Violence Against Women by McMillan Lesley;Lombard Nancy;

Author:McMillan, Lesley;Lombard, Nancy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2012-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

...while it is not gender specific, there is a gender dimension in that there are many more women than men in the age groups over 75. (Scottish Executive 2001, Section 3.7 cited in McKie 2005, p.113)

Therefore although the Scottish government highlights domestic abuse as gender based it only does so within certain age-related parameters. This inadvertently reframes older women’s experiences of violence from their partners as ‘elder abuse’ constructing them as a gender-less group. Elder abuse is:

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