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Marianne Hester

@ProfMHester

Professor of Gender, Violence & International Policy (tweets own views)

 Bristol
bristol.ac.uk/sps/people/marianne-hester/about.html
Joined July 2013
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The Telegraph
@Telegraph5 Feb 2023
🔴 Feminist student societies can exclude transgender women, university students’ union chiefs have admitted after “landmark” legal action telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02…
Feminist student societies in universities ‘can exclude trans women’

Feminist student societies in universities ‘can exclude trans women’

Bristol Students’ Union chiefs back down in row after being sued for disciplining its own female-only group over single-sex policy

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Thank you @UNSRVAW for this important call for evidence and thank you @hansummers for highlighting this. There is still time to respond before the deadline on 15.12.22 "UN to investigate use of ‘parental alienation’ tactic in custody cases" theguardian.com/global-devel…
UN to investigate use of ‘parental alienation’ tactic in custody cases

UN to investigate use of ‘parental alienation’ tactic in custody cases

Fears an increase in allegations, particularly against mothers, of deliberately alienating a child against the other parent in domestic abuse cases may put victims at further risk

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The final winner is Mary who is the founder of @Refuge4Pets 👏
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Claire Fox
@Fox_Claire20 Oct 2022
Keir Starmer promised to make it a crime to 'misgender' - and yet very few politicians seem able to talk about what a woman is. I asked the minister to ensure that women's rights would not be sidelined by a focus on gender identity.
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Marianne Hester retweeted
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Journal of GBV@JGBVjournal19 Oct 2022
Did you know that we have an Editor’s Choice Collection with articles FREE to read until 31 January 2023? Read this @SEAresource study by @_kathrynroyal on child maintenance and economic abuse here. 👇 doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16… #GenderBasedViolence #GBV #DomesticAbuse
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Replying to @Ciara__Bergman
so: one step forward and three steps back!
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We're so pleased to welcome @ProfMHester to ICCC 2022👏🏼 Marianne is the Chair of Gender, Violence & Intl. Policy at the U of Bristol, UK & is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence. She conducts research into domestic abuse, sexual violence & honor-based abuse.
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Journal of Gender-Based Violence The COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence Guest edited by Marianne Hester, Nadia Aghtaie et al. Free access until 31 September bristoluniversitypressdigita…
Special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence

Special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence

"Special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence" published on Jun 2022 by Policy Press.

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I’ve voted for Refuge4Pets in the 2022 National Lottery Awards! #NLAwards #NLARefuge4Pets lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/nea…
Refuge4Pets - National Lottery Good Causes

Refuge4Pets - National Lottery Good Causes

Refuge4Pets provides safe animal foster homes and gives domestic violence survivors peace of mind that their pet is well looked after until they get settled.

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Replying to @UoBrisSPS
and who are the parents - the fathers? the mothers? and what contexts. 'Parents' is usually a misnomer!
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Journal of GBV@JGBVjournal19 Aug 2022
Learn about the limitations of China's first anti-domestic violence law in preventing #GenderBasedViolence in our NEW article 🌠Available on Early View now⬇️ doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16… #GBV #ViolenceAgainstWomen
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New publication: UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious #coercivecontrol and implications for practice, by Natasha Mulvihill, @DrNadiaAghtaie, Andrea Matolcsi and @ProfMHester. OA link: doi.org/10.1177/174889582211… #FaithAbuse #DomesticAbuse
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fantastic
Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) profile pictureJoanna Cherry KC@joannaccherry7 Jul 2022
Celebrating last night with @MForstater @HJoyceGender @charlesworth102 & Kate Harris from @ALLIANCELGB. Maya’s fantastic legal victories will make life a lot easier for women like us who have been hounded for our defence of the rights of women & lesbians.
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The new Special Issue of Journal of Gender-Based Violence 6(2) is now available: The COVID-19 pandemic and gender-based violence. Guest edited by Marianne Hester, Nadia Aghtaie, Geentanjali Gangoli, Natasha Mulvihill and Emma Williamson Online ISSN: 2398-6816
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Journal of GBV@JGBVjournal23 Jun 2022
Congratulations to @Jenny_Birchall_ and @ProfSChoudhry. Your paper is one of our most read articles of 2021. #DomesticAbuse @OxfordLawFac Read for 🌟FREE🌟 here: doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16…
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New publication for practitioners, Faith and Coercive Control by Natasha Mulvihill, @DrNadiaAghtaie, Andrea Matolcsi and @ProfMHester: tinyurl.com/4jfm9j9y. Funded by @oakfnd. Please share & use! @UoBrisSPS @faithandvawg @VAWGRN #CoerciveControl #FaithAbuse #DomesticAbuse
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Replying to @bristol_crim @DrNadiaAghtaie @oakfnd @UoBrisSPS @faithandvawg @VAWGRN
new briefing published today and we have our conference on Emerging Forms of Coercive Control #CCConf22
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Conference on 23 June 2022 in Bristol on emerging forms of Coercive Control. Funded by Oak Foundation in partnership with Women’s Aid Federation of England. Join us in person (we have maximum of 50 free places) or via online link. eventbrite.co.uk/e/conferenc…
Conference on Emerging Forms of Coercive Control

Conference on Emerging Forms of Coercive Control

Hosted by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol

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The leading lights of feminism in UK today
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#WPUKWithWomen In 80s, women were talking about the process of 'gendering'. We were using sex/gender. 'Gender' as a term has been hijacked. We have to keep pulling our words back into what we want them to be. Patriarchy keeps popping up and we have to keep taking these words back
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