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Exhibition Program

Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives (Traveling banner script)

June 19 2015 number type text asset

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Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives

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Activists and reformers in the United States have long recognized the harm of domestic violence and sought to improve the lives of women who were battered.

During the late 20th century, nurses took up the call. With passion and persistence they worked to reform a medical profession that overwhelmingly failed to acknowledge violence against women as a serious health issue. Beginning in the late 1970s, nurses were in the vanguard as they pushed the larger medical community to identify victims, adequately respond to their needs, and work towards the prevention of domestic violence. This is their story.

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The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition

Guest curator: Catherine Jacquet, PhD

Designer: The Design Minds

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Title Generations of Reformers text Temperance and women’s rights advocates called attention to family violence and agitated for reform during the mid-19th century. Despite their efforts, society as a whole continued to ignore domestic violence.

The most dramatic changes came over a century later. In the mid-1970s, grassroots feminist activists and survivors of domestic violence organized the battered women’s movement. Using the slogan “we will not be beaten,” they exposed the prevalence of violence in women’s lives, provided shelter and support, and advocated for widespread changes.

Feminist agitation spawned significant reform in law, social services, and, eventually, medicine.

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Illustration from Temperance Tales; or, Six Nights with the Washingtonians, Timothy Shay Arthur, 1848

Courtesy Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American

Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

The temperance movement was the first national reform movement to expose the harm of domestic violence.

Temperance reformers argued that among the many evil consequences of alcohol consumption was the threat of violent, drunk husbands.

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YES Women rally in City Hall Plaza, in Boston to speak out against violence against women, August 26, 1976

©Ellen Shub 2015 all other rights reserved

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YES Ms. magazine became the first national news publication to address the issue of spouse abuse in a cover story, 1976

Reprinted by permission of Ms. magazine, ©1976

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MAYBE Working on Wife Abuse, a directory of services for survivors of domestic violence, compiled by Betsy

Warrior, 1978

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Betsy Warrior, radical women’s liberation movement activist and herself a survivor of domestic violence, worked in support of women who were battered. Working on Wife

Abuse provided information and resources to activists, service-providers, and survivors of violence, and served to connect those working in shelters nationwide.

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Banner Title Nurses Take A Stand text

Nurses were among the first to identify women who were battered as a population with specific health needs that were largely neglected by the medical community.

Through both their research and practice, nurses saw firsthand the epidemic of violence in women’s lives. In response, they prioritized improvements in the medical attention and treatment for women who were battered.

Whether in nursing school or working in emergency rooms, nurses were in a unique position to recognize and address domestic violence as a pressing health crisis for millions of women.

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Nursing Care of Victims of Family Violence, the first nursing textbook on family violence, Jacquelyn Campbell, Janice Humphreys, 1984

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YES A group photograph of nursing researchers and activists at Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado, Denver ca. 1990s

From left to right: Yvonne Ulrich, Laura McKenna, Barbara

Parker, Karen Landenburger, Judith McFarlane, Christine

King, Josephine Ryan, Doris Campbell, Jacquelyn Campbell, Daniel Sheridan

During the 1990s, these nurses, all members of the Nursing

Consortium on Violence and Abuse, conducted three major research projects on domestic violence and health, all funded by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.

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YES Take-away referral and resource cards for patients experiencing domestic violence, Rush Coalition Against

Spouse Abuse, ca. 1980s

The Rush Coalition Against Spouse Abuse produced small referral cards to provide information to patients who were victims of violence. These small cards could be easily hidden from abusers.

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MAYBE Guidelines for the Treatment of Battered Women Victims in

Emergency Room Settings, Daniel Sheridan, 1985

Sheridan’s earlier work on developing guidelines for treating women who were battered was later approved by the Chicago Hospital Council and published by the

Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.

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MAYBE Rush Coalition Against Spouse Abuse (RCASA) advocacy button, ca. 1980s

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Banner Title Medicine Confronts Violence

Nurses successfully began to change the medical profession as they advocated, educated, and organized nationally.

Based on their research and experience, nurses and their allies created and implemented some of the first hospital protocols for treating women who were battered. Using these protocols, medical practitioners learned how to identify, properly treat, and provide support and resources to this population.

Following suit, in the mid-1980s the public health community identified domestic violence as a priority health issue. This recognition marked a significant step toward the reform of the medical and health professions in treating victims of domestic violence.

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Domestic Violence: The Development and Implementation of a Hospital Protocol for the Identification and Treatment of Battered Women, Patricia McGrath, Phyllis Schultz, and P. O'Dea Culhane, 1980

In 1977, Emergency Department nurses at Boston’s

Brigham and Women’s Hospital initiated and implemented the country’s first hospital protocol for the identification and treatment of battered women. The protocol was published three years later.

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Brigham and Women's Hospital, an organization on the vanguard of identifying and treating women who were battered, sponsors a neighborhood health fair, 1980

Courtesy Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University

In the mid-1970s, nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital were on the cutting edge of identifying violence against women as a serious, and largely ignored, healthcare issue.

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either of these

Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence and Public

Health: Source Book, U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services, 1986

Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence and Public

Health: Report, Health Resources and Services

Administration, 1985

The surgeon general’s workshop on Violence and Public

Health brought together over 150 experts from across disciplines to discuss recommendations on the evaluation, prevention, and treatment of violence, including child abuse, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, and spouse abuse.

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MAYBE Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 1980s

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MAYBE Nursing Network on Violence Against Women conference bag

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Attendance and participation steadily increased at the

Nursing Network on Violence Against Women conferences.

When international members joined, the organization changed its name to the Nursing Network on Violence

Against Women International.

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Banner 5 title Change Is Possible

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Different professional medical associations expanded on the work of pioneer reformers. New protocols and treatment plans improved care for individuals who were abused by their intimate partners. These guidelines became codified in publications, training manuals, and continuing education resources. In addition, companies developed new technologies to enhance the medical protocols for treating victims of violence.

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YES The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines for member physicians “The Battered Woman,”

Courtesy American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ first bulletin on domestic violence outlined the definition, incidence, and public health impact of abuse, and stressed the importance of identifying victims and providing methods for medical intervention.

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YES “American Medical Association Diagnostic and

Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence,” Archives of

Family Medicine, 1992

The Archives of Family Medicine journal published the

American Medical Association’s guidelines on domestic violence, marking a critical turning point in the history of medicine. Pioneer physician reformer Anne Flitcraft co-authored the guidelines.

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YES A camera system designed to capture both internal and external injuries, Secure Digital Forensic Imaging, 2014

Courtesy Secure Digital Forensic Imaging, SDFI-

Telemedicine LLC

Tools used by nurses to document patient trauma have

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best with the design become more sophisticated as the practice of forensic nursing and the investigation of abuse crimes have become standardized. The SDFI camera captures internal injuries that are otherwise not visible to the naked eye.

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Best Practices: Innovative Domestic Violence Programs in

Health Care Settings, Janet Nudelman, Nancy Durborow, Marya Grambs, and Patrick Letellier, 1997

Published by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the practices outlined here reflect over a decade of medical reform initiated by nurses, physicians, social workers, and public health officials to improve the response to and treatment of women who were battered. The Fund and their

CEO, Esta Soler were critical in improving the healthcare response to women and girls who were abused.

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Banner Title And the Work Continues

Activists today continue to tirelessly work to support and empower victims of intimate partner violence. Individuals and organizations have developed innovative and creative approaches to sharing information and assisting in recovery.

In the past ten years, there has been an increased focus on the specific needs of teens and women of color.

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Yes Lipstick tubes and nail files with resource information about La Casa de las Madres, ca. 2010

Courtesy La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres, a community organization for domestic violence victims located in San Francisco, produces and distributes lipstick tubes with a leaflet hidden inside containing information and resources about the center. These lipstick tubes are a discreet way to get information to survivors without the abuser’s knowledge.

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Yes “Shelter. Help. Hope.” support wristband, ca. 2010

Courtesy Catherine Jacquet

In the mid-2000s, silicone wristbands became a popular way for people to show support and raise awareness for various causes. The movement against domestic violence produced purple wristbands with messages of strength and support.

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Scrapbook created by teenage girls at La Casa de las

Madres’ Drop In Center during the summer of 2014

Courtesy La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres provides comprehensive and empowering services to women, teens, and children exposed to and at risk of abuse. The Summer Scrapbook Project introduces teenage girls to various means of self-expression through the arts.

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YES Activists with the Asian Task Force Against Domestic

Violence participate in the first Jane Doe Walk for

Women’s Safety in Boston, October 25, 1992

©Ellen Shub 2015 all other rights reserved

As the movement against domestic violence evolved, women of color and immigrant women called attention to their specific needs.

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National Organization for Women (NOW) anti –violence rally, Washington, DC, 1995

©Ellen Shub 2015 all other rights reserved

In the mid-1990s, the movement against domestic violence continued to fight for change nationwide.

Across the country, activists gathered in support of victims of domestic violence and called for an end to violence.

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