Domestic violence

Domestic violence, the 20th century term given to intra-family and intra-sexual-partner violence, has been a long-standing tool by which men maintain power over women, children, and other subordinates in their families and intimate relationships.

SF works featuring domestic violence

• Gael Baudino, Gossamer Axe
• Mark Teppo, "How the Mermaid Lost Her Song", Strange Horizons, April 16, 2007. (Arguably a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid".)
• Terri Windling, editor, The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (1995)

See also

• Women attacking their lovers (in a variety of contexts)
• Infanticide
• Rape