Erin Pizzey
Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge.Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally as capable of violence as men. Pizzey has said that the threats were from militant feminists.
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| Birth date | February 19, 1939 |
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| Birth name | Erin Patria Margaret Carney |
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External resources
- http://whiteribbon.org/about
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/05/11/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-episode-1
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/05/25/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/06/08/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-3
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/06/22/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-4
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/07/06/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-5
- http://www.erinpizzey.com