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ate students and professionals (in this area) searching for a comprehensive/ theoretical and practical approach to the study of gender violence. The book as a whole undoubtedly raises (and addresses) the controversial methodological problem within feminist research of not what should be studied but how it should be studied. With this in mind the authors successfully steer away from the traditional approach and instead focus more convincingly on how gender violence can be most accurately investigated. All chapters offer an illuminating account of their research; in particular the chapters focussing on Asian children’s experiences of domestic violence and researching violent fathers provide a useful analysis. Both sets of authors make original and unique contributions to the (limited) understanding of gender violence and demonstrate how best to elicit a true narrative. In addition, the chapter which focuses on feminist quantitative methodology interestingly illuminates the importance of utilising quantitative data, in a climate much more focussed upon qualitative information. This publication is both timely and innovative and effectively provides a wealth of contemporary qualitative data, found nowhere else in the literature, concerning gender violence and how best to research it. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in researching gender violence epistemology and other gender related factors. The volume lives up to its title, providing understanding of what is clearly a complex problem.

Julie Eve Gardner School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Claremount Bridge, University of Newcastle, Newcastle University NE1 7RU, UK E-mail: [email protected]

Julie Eve Gardner