Battered women & feminist lawmaking / Elizabeth M. Schneider.

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Univeristy Press, c2000.

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Feminism -- United States.

Abused women -- United States.

Family violence -- United States.

Part I: domestic violence as a social and legal problem: 1. Introduction: battered women, feminist lawmaking, and equality

2. The battered women's movement and the problem of domestic violence

3. Dimensions of feminist lawmaking on battering

Part II: theoretical dimensions of feminist lawmaking on battering: 4. Defining, identifying, and strategizing

5. Beyond victimization and agency

6. The violence of privacy

Part III: implementing feminist lawmaking: 7. Battered women, feminist lawmaking, and legal practice

8. Battered women who kill

9. Motherhood and battering

Part IV: aspirations, limits and possibilities: 10. Engaging with the State

11. Lawmaking as education

12. Education as lawmaking

13. Feminist lawmaking, violence, and equality.

Includes index.

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xii, 317 p.