A Troubled Marriage : : Domestic Violence and the Legal System / / Leigh Goodmark.

• VerfasserIn: Goodmark, Leigh,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013The development of a legal regime to combat domestic violence in the United States has been lauded as one of the feminist movement’s greatest triumphs. But, Leigh Goodmark argues, the resulting system is deeply flawed in ways that prevent it from...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Developing the Legal Response
• 2 Defining Domestic Violence
• 3 Deconstructing the Victim
• 4 Separation
• 5 Mandatory Interventions
• 6 Reframing Domestic Violence Law and Policy: Anti-Essentialist Principles
• 7 A Reconstructed Legal System
• 8 Beyond the Law
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author