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Intimate Partner Abuse: Sexuality, Gender Identity, Feminism and Growth

DifferenTakes Series
61 ~ Militarism and National Security
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By Ellen B. Gattozzi

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Editors' Note: The understanding of intimate partner abuse has deepened over the past few decades through feminist activism in the legal, academic, funding and social arenas. Author Ellen B. Gattozzi argues, however, that the response to violence in the intimate lives of all people ”regardless of gender identity” still has a ways to go. Gattozzi writes that any response to intimate partner violence must evaluate the effect of police action and must be rooted in the specific needs of different individuals and communities.” Co-editors Elizabeth Barajas-Román & Betsy Hartmann

Ellen B. Gattozzi is the Program Associate at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) program and was the 2008-2009 CLPP Alumni Fellow. She graduated from Hampshire College in 2008 with a concentration in public, reproductive and sexual health. Her thesis focused on intimate partner abuse in queer contexts. Ellen worked as a Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps intern at the Native American Women’s Health Education resource Center in South Dakota and also interned with Tapestry Health in Amherst, Mass.