Archive Footage of Chiswick Women Aid
Two important documentaries of Erin Pizzey work from the 1970s:
How feminists tried to destroy the family
By Erin Pizzey During 1970, I was a young housewife with a husband, two children, two dogs and a cat. We lived in Hammersmith, West London, and I didn’t see much of my husband because he worked for TV’s Nationwide. I was lonely and isolated, and longed for something other than the usual cooking, cleaning […]
The planned destruction of the family
Editor’s note: Much content originally hosted on this site was lost during a host migration which occured some years back. In the coming months, we will be re-publishing many of the original works. To this aim, here is another ground breaking piece by Erin. By Erin Pizzey Just recently a ‘battered woman,’ for that is […]
The emotional terrorist in the family
By Erin Pizzey Those of us working in the field of domestic violence are confronted daily by the difficult task of working with women in problematical families. In my work with family violence, I have come to recognize that there are women involved in emotionally and/or physically violent relationships who express and enact disturbance beyond […]
Erin Pizzey in Conversation with Professor Murray Straus
Originally aired on 4th January 2014, this is a ground breaking dialogue between Erin Pizzey and Professor Murray Straus. Sadly, Professor Straus passed away on May 13, 2016. He was a pioneering researcher on the subjects of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and child abuse. Straus is possibly the most influential researcher on this […]