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The twentieth century saw a renewed attack on patriarchal protection from a number of angles. Most important of these was feminism, which challenged the idea that men protected women, pointing out that much male control constituted violence and terrorisation. The women’s movement led to the creation of women police, which challenged police masculinity, and women’s self-defence, which liberated women from male protection. Other challenges came from the partial withdrawal of the police from the streets due to new telephone and motor technologies, from wider countercultural attitudes to authority and loss of confidence amongst the authorities themselves, from rapidly rising crime rates, the emergence of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and situational crime prevention, and commercial security technologies and organisations. A political programme of responsibilisation created space for new entrepreneurs and forms of expertise to emerge, and the chapter analyses examples from the fields of self-defence and self-protection.
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The author purchased this edition, which is the third, 1985 printing, in a bookshop in Cambridge at some point in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
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See https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/ last accessed 1 January 2019.
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