Author: Laurie WoodsPublisher:
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Category : Abused wives
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Litigation on Behalf of Battered Women
Author: Laurie WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused wives
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Custody Litigation on Behalf of Battered Women
Author: Myra SunPublisher:
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Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Battered Women and Child Custody Litigation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
Author: Elizabeth M. SchneiderPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128932
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
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.
Litigating for Physically and Sexually Abused Women
Author: Spiral of Entrapment
Author: Hallie LudsinPublisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090545
Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Extrait de la couverture : "Debunking the myths about domestic violence - in defence of battered women who kill : *why do men abuse?, *why don't abused women leave them?, *why do some women kill?, *and why they qualify for legal defence? The Justice for Women Campaign was initiated in 1998 by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. As its name suggests, the campaign seeks to promote the just and equitable treatments of battered women who have killed their abusive partners. The Campaign has three main goals : reforming legal defences to murder and sentencing guidelines ; establishing a review mechanism to allow for the early release of women who have killed abusive partners ; and providing legal and support services to women assisted by the Campaign."
The Federal Response to Domestic Violence
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher: Washington, D.C. : The Commission
ISBN:
Category : Abused wives
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy
Author: Kristin Anne KellyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488290
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Argues that understanding resistance to countermeasures against domestic violence requires recognizing the tension within liberalism between preserving the privacy of the family and protecting vulnerable individuals. [back cover].
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