Citation

Costello M, Mason R. Aust. Social Work 2006; 59(1): 100-103.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/03124070500456031

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Comments on the article "Neo-liberalism and the pathologising of public issues: The displacement of feminist service models in domestic violence support services" by J. McDonald (see record 2007-09908-009). The present authors conclude that McDonald's article offers a good critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on federal government policy responses to domestic violence. Nevertheless, his conclusion about the silencing of structural analyses of domestic violence and displacement of feminist service models seems particularly unfounded given the evidence presented in the article. The present authors note that it is important to first delineate the areas of agreement with McDonald's analysis of this issue. They also assert that McDonald's analysis of the ascendancy of neo-liberalism in government policy and its impact of individualising and pathologising the social issue of domestic violence is, in their view, an accurate one. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)