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===[[Steven Summers]]===
'''Erin Pizzey''' (born [[February 19]], [[1939]] in [[China]], daughter of a [[diplomat]]) became internationally famous for having started the first Women's Refuge (called women's shelter in the [[US]]) in the modern world during the [[1971]]. She began in the Goldhawk Road, West [[London]] where abused women were offered tea, sympathy and a place to stay for them and their children. The demand for a service for women survivors of [[domestic violence]] grew and soon public funding became available. Today the movement has been rebranded as [[Women's Aid]] and garners millions of pounds a year from a variety of sources although primarily from the state. Erin Pizzey parted company with the movement owing to a difference of opinion regarding its underlying philosophy. She wrote a book, ''Prone to Violence'', which propounded the theory that many of the women who took refuge had a personality such that they sought abusive relationships. She told the story of one woman in the shelter known as 'Jaws' who bit the finger off another woman staying there. She did not say that most women were violent or that women were more violent than men. Her view is opposed by those who placed the blame upon prevailing patriarchal attitudes. After death threats against her, her children, her grandchildren and the shooting of her dog; Pizzey left England for North America. She returned to London in the [[1990s]] where her insights were sought by politicians and family pressure groups. She lamented that the movement she started had moved from the personal to the political.
Subject of the page seems to be unremarkable [[User:Manikraina|Manik Raina]] 14:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' vanitycruft. [[User:Friday|Friday]] 14:33, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Her book ''Prone to Violence'' was supressed by feminists to such an extent that a search of all libraries in the world that could be accessed from the US [[Library of Congress]] through the Inter-Library Network in 1996 revealed a total of 13 listings in the whole World.
==Books==
===Non Fiction===
*''Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear''
*''Infernal Child'' (An early memoir)
*''Sluts Cookbook''
*''Erin Pizzey Collects''
*''Prone to violence'' ISBN 0600205517 Out of Print
Fulltext available online http://www.bennett.com/ptv/
*''Wild Child''
===Fiction===
*''The Watershed''
*''In the Shadow of the Castle''
*''The Pleasure Palace (in manuscript)''
*''First Lady''
*''Counsul General’s Daughter''
*''The Snow Leopard of Shanghai''
*''Other Lovers''
*''Swimming with Dolphins''
*''For the Love of a Stranger''
*''Kisses''
*''The Wicked World of Women''
*''The Fame Game (work in progress)''
*''The Lifestyle of an International Best selling Author''
==Quote==
<blockquote>Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.</blockquote>
==External links==
*[http://www.speakers.co.uk/Retro/5307.htm Erin Pizzey - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers International Limited]
*[http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/pizzey.htm Erin Pizzey -- Founder of Modern Women's Shelter Movement]
*[http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/destrctn.htm THE PLANNED DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, by Erin Pizzey]
*[http://briandeer.com/social/erin-pizzey.htm Erin Pizzey, crusader for battered women, by Brian Deer]
*[http://www.menweb.org/pizzey.htm MenWeb - Men's Issues. Working with Violent Women] by Erin Pizzey
*[http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/fragile.htm WHY DID MY GRANDSON DIE?] Original title "FRAGILE" by Erin Pizzey
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