Record Nr.

UNINA9910451819003321

Autore

Schneider Elizabeth M

Titolo

Battered women & feminist lawmaking [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth M. Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-281-72926-4

9786611729264

0-300-12893-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

362.82/92

Soggetti

Abused women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Family violence - Law and legislation - United States

Feminist jurisprudence - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Battered Women's Movement and the Problem of Domestic Violence -- 3. Dimensions of Feminist Lawmaking on Battering -- 4. Defining, Identifying, and Strategizing -- 5. Beyond Victimization and Agency -- 6. The Violence of Privacy -- 7. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, and Legal Practice -- 8. Battered Women Who Kill -- 9. Motherhood and Battering -- 10. Engaging with the State -- 11. Lawmaking as Education -- 12. Education as Lawmaking -- 13. Feminist Lawmaking, Violence, and Equality -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1960's, 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.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390886303316

Titolo

Two letters sent to the Honorable William Lenthall Esq: Speaker of the honourable house of Commons, concerning the seige at Bristoll [[electronic resource] ] : and the taking the strong fort, with seven peices of ordnance: also the taking of Sir Bernard Ashley, where was killed Colonell Daniell, and Sir. Rich. Craine deadly wounded. Which letters were appointed to be printed by the honourable William Lenthall Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons

Pubbl/distr/stampa


[London], : Printed by T.W. for Ed. Husband, printer for the Honourable House of Commons., 1645

Descrizione fisica

[2], 5, [1] p

Altri autori (Persone)

LenthallWilliam <1591-1662.>

Soggetti

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Campaigns Early works to 1800

Bristol (England) History Siege, 1643 Early works to 1800