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The problem of violence, specifically domestic abuse against women, has received a large amount of exposure to the public over recent decades, including a great deal of activity, research, influence by those who care to end women's violence and gaining justice and rights for these survivors. Looking into the violence of women through the masculinity of a males account in domestic violence, in the 1970s wife battering recieved a large amount of public attention brought by feminist activists and reaserchers, one main component of masculinity was shown through the words and images of women survivors which were exposed by the educational and popular media which displayed male domination on women based on their battered bodies. The response to the issue of wife battering was analysed by (Dobash and Dobash 1979) through the shared reactions of the society, from the fifteenth century until the present, the European community has regulated its internal domestic affairs. They concluded that preserving patriarchal power and the husbands right to employ physical force and other forms of control over their wives was the goal for both the community and institution, they aimed to limit the amount of violence a husband could use on their wife, women were often forced to turn to the police who were not set up to handle domestic abuse, this was the case as the traditional community wore away and big institutions who didnt necessarily care took over.

The outcome of the battering left women with serious long term affects, also known in the law as battered women syndrome which was first used in 1977 as the title of the us national institute of mental health, after the term bws was presented there was an addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders called post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The theoretical background behindBWSs was nearly the same as ptsd; therefore, BWS became a subcategory of ptsd in the psychological literature, Battered Women Syndrome is the behavioural and physical symptoms that battered women show, including depression, anxiety, bruising, injuries,s etc, when they experience physical, emotional, and sexual abuse that is regulary recieved over a long period from their partner. Later on in the 1970s, the psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker mentioned that women might stay with their abusive partner to help justify their actions towards their partner, including self-defence. In terms of legal defences where women are found guilty of abusing or killing their violent partners, it can be used as a form of self defence specifically when this form of action can be seem as irrational if abuse isnt mentioned, while helping the court understand the long term psychological effects the abuse have on these women.

Lastly, during the 1970s, there was a revival of interest in the psychological influence on women's well-being of various forms of men's violence against women. Mostly in the us, politicians and representatives experience a huge amount of pressure when trying to address the long-standing issue of violence against women, which has supported the development of public policies to address this through the dominant use of testimonies of victims and advocates instead of empirical studies. Examples of this can be found in the various hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1979, as well as hearings before different committees of the U.S. Congress in the 1980s and 1990s (Walker, 1999)