LEADER 04276nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910451819003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-72926-4 010 $a9786611729264 010 $a0-300-12893-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128932 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471968 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049541 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045369 035 $a(PQKB)11372979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420010 035 $a(DE-B1597)485446 035 $a(OCoLC)952732139 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420010 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170036 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172926 035 $a(OCoLC)923589880 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471968 100 $a20000320d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBattered women & feminist lawmaking$b[electronic resource] /$fElizabeth M. Schneider 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-08343-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-300) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction --$t2. The Battered Women's Movement and the Problem of Domestic Violence --$t3. Dimensions of Feminist Lawmaking on Battering --$t4. Defining, Identifying, and Strategizing --$t5. Beyond Victimization and Agency --$t6. The Violence of Privacy --$t7. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, and Legal Practice --$t8. Battered Women Who Kill --$t9. Motherhood and Battering --$t10. Engaging with the State --$t11. Lawmaking as Education --$t12. Education as Lawmaking --$t13. Feminist Lawmaking, Violence, and Equality --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWomen'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. 517 3 $aBattered women and feminist lawmaking 606 $aAbused women$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aFamily violence$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aFeminist jurisprudence$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAbused women$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aFamily violence$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aFeminist jurisprudence 676 $a362.82/92 700 $aSchneider$b Elizabeth M$01038685 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451819003321 996 $aBattered women & feminist lawmaking$92460425 997 $aUNINA