Erin Pizzey

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Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (; born 19 February 1939) is a British men's rights activist and novelist known for her advocacy on behalf of both men's and women's rights and for her work against domestic violence. She set up the world's first and largest domestic violence shelter, Refuge, then known as Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971. Pizzey says that she has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because her experience and research into the issue led her to conclude that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are as capable of violence as men. She claims that these threats eventually led to her exile from the UK. She has also stated that she is banned from the refuge she started.

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