Jalna Hanmer Opening Statement

“Prevention, provision, and protection are our themes. Full citizenship for women is our objective.” 

“Whoever we are, and however we got here, we all share common ground, and are struggling together to end violence against women.” 

“We thank you for coming and hope you will take back with you knowledge and inspiration, and find new ways to take this conference forward in your own field and in your own part of the world.” 

Jalna Hanmer was the convenor of the Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit and Professor of Women’s Studies and Co-ordinator of the MA/Dip Women’s Studies (Applied) at the University of Bradford. Jalna is co-author of Man Made Women: How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women, editor of Issues in Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, 1988-1992, and has undertaken research for the European Commission on women’s perspectives on the human genome project. She also researched and published on violence and crime and is co-author of Well-Founded Fear: A Community Study of Violence Against Women, and of Women, Violence and Crime Prevention (with Sheila Saunders), and co-editor of Women, Violence and Social Control (with Mary Maynard).

Jalna died in 2023. Read her obituary written by Julie Bindel.