<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Resisting co-optation: three feminist challenges to antiviolence work / James Ptacek -- The role of restorative justice in the battered women's movement / Loretta Frederick, Kristine C. Lizdas -- Aboriginal women and political pursuit in Canadian sentencing circles: at cross roads or cross purposes? / Rashmi Goel -- A community of one's own? When women speak to power about restorative justice / Pamela Rubin -- Restorative justice, gendered violence, and indigenous women / Julie Stubbs -- Restorative justice for domestic and family violence: hopes and fears of indigenous and non-indigenous Australian women / Heather Nancarrow -- Restorative justice and youth violence toward parents / Kathleen Daly, Heather Nancarrow -- Opening conversations across cultural, gender, and generational divides: family and community engagement to stop violence against women and children / Joan Pennell, Mimi Kim -- Alternative interventions to intimate violence: defining political and pragmatic challenges / Mimi Kim -- Restorative justice for acquaintance rape and misdemeanor sex crimes / Mary P. Koss -- Restorative justice and gendered violence in New Zealand: a glimmer of hope / Shirley Julich -- Beyond restorative justice: radical organizing against violence / Andrea Smith -- Re-imagining justice for crimes of violence against women / James Ptacek.