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The dual roles of feminist movement organisations working around violence mean it is necessary to consider the role of the state not only in its capacity as abuser of rights and its potential to alleviate women’s oppression, but also in its capacity as the main funding body for the organisations set up by the women’s movement as alternative forms of welfare provision for women suffering male violence.
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McMillan, L. (2007). Feminism and the State. In: Feminists Organising Against Gendered Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592247_3
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