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Battering States - The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel (Paperback)
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Battering States - The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel (Paperback)
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Battering States explores the most personal part of people's lives
as they intersect with a uniquely complex state system. The book
examines how statecraft shapes domestic violence: how a state
defines itself and determines what counts as a family; how a state
establishes sovereignty and defends its borders; and how a state
organizes its legal system and forges its economy. The ethnography
includes stories from people, places, and perspectives not commonly
incorporated in domestic violence studies, and, in doing so,
reveals the transformation of intimate partner violence from a
predictable form of marital trouble to a publicly recognized social
problem. The politics of domestic violence create novel entry
points to understanding how, although women may be vulnerable to
gender-based violence, they do not necessarily share the same kind
of belonging to the state. This means that markers of identity and
power, such as gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion and
religiosity, and socio-economic and geographic location, matter
when it comes to safety and pathways to justice. The study centers
on Israel, where a number of factors bring connections between the
cultural politics of the state and domestic violence into stark
relief: the presence of a contentious multinational and multiethnic
population; competing and overlapping sets of religious and civil
laws; a growing gap between the wealthy and the poor; and the
dominant presence of a security state in people's everyday lives.
The exact combination of these factors is unique to Israel, but
they are typical of states with a diverse population in a time of
globalization. In this way, the example of Israel offers insights
wherever the political and personal impinge on one another.
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