Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking write by Elizabeth M. Schneider. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Confronting Domestic Violence and Achieving Gender Equality
Confronting Domestic Violence and Achieving Gender Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Domestic Violence and Achieving Gender Equality write by . This book was released on 2002. Confronting Domestic Violence and Achieving Gender Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Feminist Engagement with the Law
Feminist Engagement with the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Engagement with the Law write by Elizabeth Comack. This book was released on 1993. Feminist Engagement with the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph analyzes the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in Lavallee [R. v. Lavallee (1990)] to recognize the Battered Woman Syndrome as relevant in cases involving women defendants who kill their abusive partners. The author suggests that, while there is much in the decision which would lead feminists to consider 'Lavalee' to be a benefit, the decision also legitimates the power of the 'psy' professions to interpret an abused woman's experiences. Accordingly, the Battered Woman Syndrome is criticized as offering an account which individualizes, medicalizes and depoliticizes the abuse. The discussion concludes with a consideration of the implications of the recognition for feminists.
Nobody Passes
Nobody Passes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobody Passes write by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. This book was released on 2006-11-27. Nobody Passes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nobody Passes" is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. "Nobody Passes" explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of "passing." In a pass-fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create. Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has a history of editing anthologies based on brazen nonconformity and gender defiance. Mattilda sets out to ask the question, "What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as 'real'." The answers are as varied as the life experiences of the writers who tackle this urgent and essential topic.
Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law
Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law write by Lois Bibbings. This book was released on 2013-03-04. Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if the gender of criminals and their victims is irrelevant. It has also been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation,crime detection, decisions to charge and prosecute, lawyers trial tactics, decisions as to guilt and sentencing policy and practice, all of which are significantly affected by gender.This book seeks to fill these gaps by looking at the major areas in which gender affects the way that suspected criminals and their victims are treated by the criminal justice system. However, this book is not just a supplement to traditional criminal law discourse. It is a dangerous supplement, in that the focus on gender challenges laws claim to neutrality and even-handed justice.The essays in this book establish that, not only does the law frequently fail to offer women the sort of protection from male violence and sexual invasion that they need, but it continues to discriminate on grounds of gender. Even when discriminating in favour of women, it does so in ways that reinforce dangerous gender stereotypes. More specifically, both criminal law doctrine and criminal justice personnel apply and reinforce ideas, on the one hand, of female passivity, irrationality and proneness to illness, and, on the other, of natural male aggression - both physical and sexual.
