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| − | [[File:ErinPizzeyAward2014.png|250px|thumb|right|Erin Pizzey, in receipt of the inaugural award named after her.<br/> 27 June 2014.]]'''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<ref>[[Haven House]] in California was founded in 1964, seven years earlier than Pizzey's shelter (see {{Wayback |date=20090425061509 |url=http://havenhousela.com/domestic_violence/shelter/prevention_education/C61 |title=About Haven House}}).</ref> women's refuges (called [[women's shelter]]s in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, [[Chiswick Women's Aid]], in 1971,<ref>{{cite book|last=Rappaport|first=Helen|authorlink=Helen Rappaport|title=Encyclopedia of women social reformers|volume=1|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-1-57607-101-4|page=549|chapter=Pizzey, Erin (1939— ) United Kingdom|quote=In 1972 the center was visited by U.S. feminists, who set up similar ventures in the United States...}}</ref> the organisation known today as [[Refuge (United Kingdom charity)|Refuge]].<ref name=35years>{{cite web|url=http://refuge.org.uk/about-us/refuges-35th-birthday/35-years-of-refuge/|title=35 years of Refuge|year=2009|publisher=[[Refuge (United Kingdom charity)|Refuge]]|accessdate=7 July 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5mXlJ2XBi|archivedate=4 January 2010}}</ref> |
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| + | Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (/ˈpɪtsi/;[2] born 19 February 1939) is a British ex-feminist, Men's rights activist and advocate against domestic violence, and novelist.[3][4][5][6][7] She is known for having started the first and currently the largest domestic violence shelter in the modern world, Refuge, then known as Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971.[8][1][9] |
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| − | 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.<ref name="Cook2009">{{cite book|author=Philip W. Cook|title=Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wpudCuNgNPcC|year=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-35618-6|pages=123–4}}</ref><ref name="PizzeyIndependent1997">{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/battered-erin-pizzey-yes-a-bit-1272122.html | title=Battered? Erin Pizzey? Yes, a bit | work=The Independent | date=10 March 1997 | author=Ross, Deborah | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6NkS24W8a | archivedate=1 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="PizzeyScotsman1999">{{cite news | title=Who's Failing the Family | work=The Scotsman | date=30 March 1999 | author=Pizzey, Erin}}</ref> |
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| + | Pizzey has been the subject of bomb threats and boycotts because her experience and research into the issue led her to conclude that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are as capable of violence as men. These threats eventually led to her exile from the UK.[10][11] Pizzey has said that the threats were from militant feminists.[12][13][14] She has also stated that she is banned from the refuge she started.[15][16] |
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| − | ==Early life== |
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| − | She was born Erin Carney in [[Tsingtao]] (now Qingdao), China in 1939. Her father was a [[diplomat]] and one of 17 children from a poor Irish family.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/battered-erin-pizzey-yes-a-bit-1272122.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Deborah | last=Ross | date=10 March 1997 | title=Battered? Erin Pizzey? Yes, a bit}}</ref><ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5JYrAQAAIAAJ&q=erin+pizzey+Tsingtao&dq=erin+pizzey+Tsingtao&hl=en&ei=LNQXTtj3M8y48gPYjMkr&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg The World who's who of women – Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The family moved to [[Shanghai]] and were captured by the invading [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Army]] in 1942 and exchanged for Japanese Prisoners of war.<ref name="Pizzey">{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1215464/Why-I-loathe-feminism---believe-ultimately-destroy-family.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Erin | last=Pizzey | title=Why I loathe feminism... and believe it will ultimately destroy the family | date=24 September 2009}}</ref> Her brother [[Daniel Carney]] was also a writer, mostly known for ''[[The Wild Geese (Carney novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' novel turned into a film.<ref>[http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/474992.print/ We gave women back a sense of self]</ref> |
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| − | ==Overview== |
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| − | Pizzey set up a women's refuge in Belmont Terrace, [[Chiswick]], London where abused women were offered tea, vindaloo, sympathy and a place to stay for them and their children. She later opened a number of additional shelters despite hostility from the authorities. Pizzey's crucial pioneering work and determined campaigning was widely praised at the time. In 1975 MP [[Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke|Jack Ashley]] stated in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] that, "The work of Mrs. Pizzey was pioneering work of the first order. It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical by establishing the Chiswick aid centre. As a result of that magnificent pioneering work, the whole nation has now come to appreciate the significance of the problem".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1975/jul/11/battered-wives-rights-to-possession-of|title=BATTERED WIVES (RIGHTS TO POSSESSION OF MATRIMONIAL HOME) BILL (Hansard, 11 July 1975)|accessdate=9 June 2011}}</ref> |
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| − | Pizzey said that militant feminists—with the collusion of [[Labour Party (United Kingdom)|Labour]]'s leading women—hijacked her cause and used it to try to demonise all men, not only in Britain, but internationally.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-430702/How-feminists-tried-destroy-family.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | title=How feminists tried to destroy the family | date=22 January 2007}}</ref> After the hijacking the demand for a service for women survivors of domestic violence grew and soon public funding became available [source?]. Today, Chiswick Women's Aid has been rebranded as [[Refuge (United Kingdom charity)|Refuge]] and is a national organization that garners millions of pounds a year from a variety of sources, the primary one of which is the state. Pizzey has lamented that the movement she started had moved from the "personal to the political". |
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| − | Soon after establishing her first refuge, Pizzey determined that much domestic violence was reciprocal, with both partners abusing each other in roughly equal rates. She reached this conclusion when she asked the women in her refuge about their violence, only to discover most of the women were equally as violent or more violent than their husbands. In her study "Comparative Study Of Battered Women And Violence-Prone Women,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dvmen.org/dv-133.htm|title=Domestic Violence Against Men by Charles E. Corry, Ph.D.|accessdate=9 June 2011}}</ref> (co-researched with Dr. John Gayford of Warlingham Hospital), Pizzey distinguishes between "genuine battered women" and "violence-prone women;" the former defined as "the unwilling and innocent victim of his or her partner's violence" and the latter defined as "the unwilling victim of his or her own violence." This study reports that 62% of the sample population were more accurately described as "violence prone." Similar findings regarding the mutuality of domestic violence have been confirmed in subsequent studies.<ref>Fiebert, Martin S. [http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography]. First published in ''Sexuality and Culture'', 1997, ''1,'' 273–286; updated May 2009</ref><ref>Malcolm J. George of the Department of Physiology, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, United Kingdom.[http://www.dewar4research.org/DOCS/dky.pdf Riding the Donkey Backwards: Men as the Unacceptable Victims of Marital Violence]</ref> |
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| − | In her book ''Prone to Violence'' Pizzey has argued that many of the women who took refuge had a personality such that they sought abusive relationships. Pizzey describes such behaviour as akin to [[Behavioral addiction|addiction]]. She speculates that high levels of [[hormones]] and [[neurochemical]]s associated with pervasive childhood trauma lead to adults who repeatedly engage in violent altercations with intimate partners despite the physical, emotional, legal and financial costs, in unwitting attempts to simulate the emotional impact of traumatic childhood experiences. The book contains numerous stories of disturbed families alongside a discussion of the reasons why the modern state care-taking agencies are largely ineffective. |
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| − | Pizzey says that it was after death threats against her, her children, her grandchildren, and the shooting of her dog, all of which she states were perpetrated by militant feminists,<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197550,00.html Fox News article on Erin Pizzey]</ref><ref>[http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/failfamt.htm Erin Pizzey's 20 March 1999 article published in The Scotsman]</ref> that she left England for North America. She returned to London in the 1990s where her insights were sought by politicians and family pressure groups. |
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| − | ==Current work== |
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| − | Pizzey is still actively working to help victims of domestic violence. From January 2007 to December 2011 she has published articles in the [[Daily Mail]] newspaper.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-430702/How-feminists-tried-destroy-family.html Daily Mail 2007 article] and [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=+Erin+Pizzey Daily Mail articles by Erin Pizzey category 2008–11]</ref> In March 2007, Erin opened the first Arab refuge for victims of domestic violence in Bahrain.<ref>[http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=173956 Children ‘must be protected from domestic violence’] 23 March 2007 in [[Gulf Daily News]] by Erin Pizzey ([http://www.sossandra.org/2007/03/23/gulf-daily-news-children-must-be-protected-from-domestic-violence/ Sossandra mirror])</ref> She has been a patron of the charity [[Mankind Initiative]] since 2008.<ref>[http://www.mankind.org.uk/aboutus.html Mankind Initiative: About Us] (listed since {{Wayback |date=20080415141657 |url=http://www.mankind.org.uk/aboutus.html |title=}})</ref> |
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| − | Pizzey said in 2009 that she has "never been a feminist, because, having experienced my mother's violence, I always knew that women can be as vicious and irresponsible as men".<ref name="Pizzey"/> |
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| − | In 2013 she joined the editorial and advisory board of the [[men's rights]] organization [[A Voice for Men]] (serving as an Editor and DV Policy Advisor) and from January to August wrote thirteen articles for the group's web site, including: |
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| − | #"From Erin Pizzey, AVfM Editor-at-Large" published 1 January |
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| − | #"Erin Pizzey reflects on Toronto protest" published 20 January |
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| − | #"Aerobics – a poem by Erin Pizzey" published 27 January |
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| − | #"Working with violent women" published 4 February |
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| − | #"Live now on Reddit" published 14 April |
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| − | #"Erin Pizzey live on Reddit, part 2" published 27 April |
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| − | #"Statement from Erin Pizzey" published 20 May |
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| − | #"Prone to Violence: Introduction and Preface" published 19 June |
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| − | #"Prone to Violence: Chapter One" published 6 July |
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| − | #"Prone to Violence: Chapter Two" published 10 July |
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| − | #"Prone to Violence: Chapter Three" published 17 July |
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| − | #"Prone to Violence: Chapter Four" published 27 July |
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| − | #"Men’s human rights & supposed “hate speech”" published 6 August |
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| − | Her two April articles pertained to two interviews she gave on the [[Reddit]] community "IamA", where she promoted her Facebook page and the "AVFM Online Radio" podcast on [[BlogTalkRadio]].<ref>April 2013 interviews on /r/IamA: [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1cbrbs/hi_im_erin_pizzey_ask_me_anything/ 14th] and [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1d7toq/hi_im_erin_pizzey_founder_of_the_first_womens/ 27th]</ref> She announced her first interview a week prior on [[/r/MensRights]].<ref>[http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1bsqdy/ask_me_anything_planned/ Ask Me Anything planned] 6 April 2013 by Erin Pizzey</ref> |
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| − | In May, following her promotion of the BTR podcast series the previous month, Erin also began running her own program on AVFM radio initially called "Domestic Violence Revelations with Erin Pizzey" which ran 5 episodes<ref>DV Revelations first five: |
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| − | #[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/05/11/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-episode-1 May 11] |
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| − | #[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/05/25/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey 25 May] |
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| − | #[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/06/08/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-3 June 8] |
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| − | #[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/06/22/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-4 June 22] |
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| − | #[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/07/06/domestic-violence-revelations-with-erin-pizzey-5 July 6]</ref> until the title was shortened to simply "Revelations with Erin Pizzey". In "Revelations" she transitioned from doing personal readings to holding discussions with guests. Under her new format she interviewed [[Glen Poole]] and [[Neil Lyndon]] in July;<ref>20 July 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/07/20/revelations-with-erin-pizzy-glen-poole-neil-lyndon Revelations with Erin 1/6: Glen and Neil]</ref> [[Geoffrey James]]{{disambiguation needed|date=November 2013}}<ref>3 August 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/08/03/revelations-with-erin-pizzey Revelations with Erin 2/7: Solaris]</ref> and [[Suzanne Venker]]<ref>17 August 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/08/17/revelations-with-erin-pizzey-suzanne-venker Revelations with Erin 3/8: Suzanne Venker]</ref> in August; then [[Philip W. Cook]],<ref>7 September 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/09/07/revelations-with-erin-pizzey-philip-w-cook Revelations with Erin 4/9: Philip Cook]</ref> [[Warren Farrell]],<ref>14 September 2013 |
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| − | [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/09/14/revelations-werin-pizzey-dr-warren-farrell Revelations with Erin 5/10: Warren Farrell]</ref> [[Attila Vinczer]]<ref>21 September 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/09/21/revelations-with-erin-pizzey-attila-vinczer Revelations with Erin 6/11: Attila Vinczer]</ref> and [[Mike Buchanan]]<ref>28 September 2013 [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/09/28/revelations-with-erin-pizzey-rally-in-toronto Revelations with Erin 7/12: Rally in Toronto]</ref> in September. The first segment of a newer series called "Thoughts with Erin" also began in September on AVFM Radio on the "Honey Badger Radio" series, where "[[honey badger]] number one" Erin expressed her views on the show's topic of "Feminism's pimp hand" with her hosts, and mentioned having known the deceased [[Earl Silverman]].<ref>22 minutes into [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avoiceformen/2013/09/13/feminisms-pimp-hand Honey Badger Radio 5: Feminism’s Pimp Hand] (aired 13 September 2013) mentions Earl at 32m50s</ref> |
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| − | In 2009 Pizzey successfully sued [[Macmillan Publishers]] for libel over content in the [[Andrew Marr]] book ''A History of Modern Britain''. The publication had falsely claimed she had once been part of the militant group ''[[The Angry Brigade]]'' that staged bomb attacks in the 1970s.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7976546.stm|title=Campaigner accepts libel damages|date=1 April 2009|publisher=BBC.co.uk|accessdate=1 April 2009}}</ref> The publisher also recalled and destroyed the offending version of the book, and republished it with the error removed.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/5089062/Andrew-Marrs-publisher-pays-significant-damages-to-womens-campaigner.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Andrew Marr's publisher pays 'significant' damages to women's campaigner | first=Stephen | last=Adams | date=1 April 2009 | accessdate=2 May 2010}}</ref> The link to the Angry Brigade was made in 2001, in an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', in which the article states that she was "thrown out" of the feminist movement after threatening to inform police about a planned bombing by the Angry Brigade of the clothes shop [[Biba]], "I said that if you go on with this—they were discussing bombing Biba [the legendary department store in Kensington]—I'm going to call the police in, because I really don't believe in this."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rabinovitch|first=Dina |authorlink=Dina Rabinovitch|date=26 November 2001|title=Domestic violence can't be a gender issue|journal=[[The Guardian]]|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/26/gender.uk1|accessdate=20 March 2009 | location=London}}</ref> |
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| − | Pizzey married [[Jack Pizzey (television)|Jack Pizzey]], then a naval lieutenant, when she was 20, first meeting in Hong Kong. They had two children.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1167483/Erin-Pizzey-When-Andrew-Marr-accused-terrorist-like-bomb-going-chest.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Antonia | last=Hoyle | title=Erin Pizzey: When Andrew Marr accused me of being a terrorist, it was like a bomb going off in my chest | date=5 April 2009}}</ref> Pizzey lives in south London. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2000.<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/26/gender.uk1 | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Domestic violence can't be a gender issue | date=26 November 2001}}</ref> |
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| − | In 2000 Pizzey's grandson Keita Craig, who had [[schizophrenia]], committed suicide in a prison cell. Erin Pizzey and her family campaigned against the coroner's verdict of [[hanging|death by hanging]] and in 2001 a jury at a second inquest unanimously found that Keita's death was contributed to by the neglect of prison staff. The case was the first ever to reach a finding of neglect in a suicide case.<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1593544.stm | work=BBC News | title=Prison neglect 'contributed to suicide' | date=11 October 2001}}</ref> |
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| − | ==Books== |
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| − | ===Nonfiction=== |
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| − | *''This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir'' |
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| − | *''Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear'' |
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| − | *''Infernal Child'' (an early memoir) |
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| − | *''Sluts' Cookbook'' |
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| − | *''Erin Pizzey Collects'' |
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| − | *''Prone to violence'' ISBN 0-600-20551-7 Out of print |
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| − | *''Wild Child'' |
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| − | *''The Emotional Terrorist and The Violence-prone'' ISBN 0-88970-103-2 |
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| − | ===Fiction=== |
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| − | *''The Watershed'' |
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| − | *''In the Shadow of the Castle'' |
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| − | *''The Pleasure Palace (in manuscript)'' |
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| − | *''First Lady'' |
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| − | *''Counsul General’s Daughter'' |
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| − | *''The Snow Leopard of Shanghai'' |
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| − | *''Other Lovers'' |
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| − | *''Swimming with Dolphins'' |
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| − | *''For the Love of a Stranger'' |
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| − | *''Kisses'' |
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| − | *''The Wicked World of Women'' |
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| − | *''The Fame Game (work in progress)'' |
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| − | *''The Lifestyle of an International Best selling Author'' |
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| − | == Awards == |
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| − | *International Order of Volunteers For Peace, Diploma Of Honour (Italy) 1981. |
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| − | *Nancy Astor Award for Journalism 1983. |
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| − | *World Congress of Victimology (San Francisco) 1987 – Distinguished Leadership Award. |
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| − | *St. Valentino Palm d’Oro International Award for Literature, 14 February 1994, Italy. |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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| + | *[http://www.erinpizzey.com ErinPizzey.com], personal website, last updated March 2012] |
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| − | Personal sites: |
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| − | *[http://www.erinpizzey.com ErinPizzey.com], her website, last updated March 2012 |
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Revision as of 09:24, 21 August 2023
File:ErinPizzeyAward2014.png
Erin Pizzey, in receipt of the inaugural award named after her.
27 June 2014.
27 June 2014.
Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (/ˈpɪtsi/;[2] born 19 February 1939) is a British ex-feminist, Men's rights activist and advocate against domestic violence, and novelist.[3][4][5][6][7] She is known for having started the first and currently the largest domestic violence shelter in the modern world, Refuge, then known as Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971.[8][1][9]
Pizzey has been the subject of bomb threats and boycotts because her experience and research into the issue led her to conclude that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are as capable of violence as men. These threats eventually led to her exile from the UK.[10][11] Pizzey has said that the threats were from militant feminists.[12][13][14] She has also stated that she is banned from the refuge she started.[15][16]
External links
- ErinPizzey.com, personal website, last updated March 2012]
Erin Pizzey set up a women's refuge in Belmont Terrace, Chiswick, London in 1971. She later opened a number of additional shelters, despite hostility from the authorities. She gained notoriety and publicity for setting up refuges by squatting, most notably in 1975 at the Palm Court Hotel in Richmond. Pizzey's work was widely praised at the time. In 1975, MP Jack Ashley stated in the House of Commons that "The work of Mrs. Pizzey was pioneering work of the first order. It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical by establishing the Chiswick aid centre. As a result of that magnificent pioneering work, the whole nation has now come to appreciate the significance of the problem". Whilst being prosecuted by local authorities and appealing matters to the House of Lords, she was recognised for her work.
Chiswick Women's Aid was renamed Chiswick Family Rescue on March 31,1979) and then Refuge on March 5, 1993. Although Refuge traces its existence back to Chiswick Women's Aid, Erin Pizzey's name could not be found anywhere on the Refuge website for many decades. It was not until November 2, 2020 that Sandra Horley, the chief executive of Refuge since 1983, mentioned Erin Pizzey for the first time on the Refuge website in a press release on her retirement.
Erin Pizzey was not invited to the 50th anniversary celebration of the organisation that she founded.
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