Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking - Hardcover

Schneider, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300083432 ISBN 13: 9780300083439

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

An examination of the path-breaking legal process that has brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to public attention in the USA, and has led the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem.

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Review:

"A penetrating study of domestic violence ... matchless ability to bridge the worlds of theory and practice ..." -- Mimi Wesson, Women's Review of Books

"A work of great depth and moment. Undoubtedly, it will impact the continued development of laws to protect and liberate battered women." -- Peter Glick, New York Law Journal

"Scholars, practitioners, social service providers, judges, and lawmakers will find in this thought-provoking volume a wealth of information..." -- Julie Goldscheid and Mary McGowan Davis, Jurist's Books-on-Law

"This important book is 'must' reading for lawyers, political leaders, and medical and mental health professionals involved in responses to domestic violence." -- Martha Minow, Harvard Law School

From the Publisher:

Winner of the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Legal Category.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300083432
• ISBN 13: 9780300083439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320