Origin Stories from the Movements to End Domestic Violence, Volume 2
Macro-Level Stories
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©2026, 220 pages
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Origin Stories from the Movements to End Domestic Violence is a two-volume series highlighting the unique narratives and pioneering work of multiple movements addressing domestic violence in the United States. The series spotlights the lived experiences and efforts of individuals and groups who have been pivotal in advancing movements to challenge and reshape societal norms, laws, care practices, and policy.
Volume 2: Macro-Level Stories centers on stories and strategies that produce change at the community, state, and national levels. The book underscores the contributions of community service programs, state coalitions, and national organizations. Volume 1: Individual Stories showcases the courageous works of survivors and changemakers whose efforts significantly impacted the movements.
Individually or as a set, both volumes are ideal for courses exploring social work, gender studies, public policy, and legal studies. These books are part of the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence, an interdisciplinary collection of textbooks featuring cross-cultural perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and interventions, and timely research on family and gender-based violence.
A Statement from the Author in Recognition of Women's History Month 2026
"Out of the second wave of the feminist movement came the movements to end all forms of violence against women. These books include 48 stories of pioneering survivors, activists, and researchers who created the network of programs addressing domestic violence that continues to evolve today. They created safe spaces, changed laws, developed new legal tools, and documented the depth, scope, and cost of trauma to women and their children. Origin Stories from the Movements to End Domestic Violence demonstrates the courage and resilience of women to challenge the status quo."
Volume 2: Macro-Level Stories centers on stories and strategies that produce change at the community, state, and national levels. The book underscores the contributions of community service programs, state coalitions, and national organizations. Volume 1: Individual Stories showcases the courageous works of survivors and changemakers whose efforts significantly impacted the movements.
Individually or as a set, both volumes are ideal for courses exploring social work, gender studies, public policy, and legal studies. These books are part of the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence, an interdisciplinary collection of textbooks featuring cross-cultural perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and interventions, and timely research on family and gender-based violence.
A Statement from the Author in Recognition of Women's History Month 2026
"Out of the second wave of the feminist movement came the movements to end all forms of violence against women. These books include 48 stories of pioneering survivors, activists, and researchers who created the network of programs addressing domestic violence that continues to evolve today. They created safe spaces, changed laws, developed new legal tools, and documented the depth, scope, and cost of trauma to women and their children. Origin Stories from the Movements to End Domestic Violence demonstrates the courage and resilience of women to challenge the status quo."
Fran S. Danis (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University) is an associate professor emerita from the University of Texas at Arlington and recognized by the National Association of Social Workers as a Social Work Pioneer®. In 1980, she became the founding executive director of Denton County Friends of the Family, Texas, providing services to sexual assault and domestic violence survivors and their children. During her career, she served on the board of the Texas Council on Family Violence, conducted research and evaluation studies on gender-based violence, and taught university courses on domestic violence. She cofounded (with Lettie Lockhart) the Violence Against Women and Their Children track of the Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting.
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“Origin stories from the movements to end domestic violence. Volume 2: Macro-level stories (2026), written by Fran S. Danis — a researcher, practitioner, and National Association of Social Workers Social Work Pioneer® — is a must-read for feminist scholars, students, educators, and researchers dedicated to eradicating intimate harm. […] Danis’ Origin Stories comes at a pivotal time in the history of U.S. antiviolence movements, given the multiple challenges posed by the second Trump administration which, for example, ended vital funding for programs deemed undeserving of federal support because they served people of diverse identities, ideologies, or citizenship status. Hobbled by the inability to use federal funds for any work dedicated to efforts that could be deemed to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, in support of LGBTQ2IA +or immigrant communities, those committed to social justice work − one form of which is anti-domestic violence work − in the U.S. must now do much more with much less and, often, with much greater risk. Thus, Danis’ focus on macro-level approaches in Volume 2 brings critically needed perspective and inspiration at a time when practitioners, researchers, and educators are pressed to continue to fill in the gaps with life-saving interventions and policies.”
An excerpt from the book review in Affilia: Feminist Inquiry of Social Work
Book review written by Lisa Young Larance, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
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An excerpt from the book review in Affilia: Feminist Inquiry of Social Work
Book review written by Lisa Young Larance, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Read the full review with a subscription or one-time purchase
Watch MOmentum for Change: Season 5, Episode 3: Origin Stories with Fran S. Danis on YouTube, or listen to the episode on Spotify. During this episode, pioneering social work, educator, and lifelong activist Fran joins the podcast for a discussion of her recent book series, Origin Stories from the Movements to End Domestic Violence. She shares insights on what motivated her to write this history, the process she took, and reflects on the power and promise of sharing origin stories.
