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Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (Paperback)
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Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (Paperback)
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Women's rights advocates in the United States have long argued that
violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but
it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in
the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming
domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This
important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has
brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to
public attention and has led the United States Congress, the
Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem.
Elizabeth Schneider has played a pioneering role in this process.
From an insider's perspective she explores how claims of rights for
battered women have emerged from feminist activism, and she
assesses the possibilities and limitations of feminist legal
advocacy to improve battered women's lives and transform law and
culture. The book chronicles the struggle to incorporate feminist
arguments into law, particularly in cases of battered women who
kill their assailants and battered women who are mothers. With a
broad perspective on feminist lawmaking as a vehicle of social
change, Schneider examines subjects as wide-ranging as criminal
prosecution of batterers, the civil rights remedy of the Violence
Against Women Act of 1994, the O. J. Simpson trials, and a class on
battered women and the law that she taught at Harvard Law School.
Feminist lawmaking on woman abuse, Schneider argues, should
reaffirm the historic vision of violence and gender equality that
originally animated activist and legal work.
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