Unexpected subjects : : intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law /

Unexpected subjects : : intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law / / Alessandra Gribaldo.

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This book is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women's practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Us...

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Superior document:Essays in Ethnographic Theory
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Gribaldo, Alessandra,
Place / Publishing House:Chicago : : HAU Books,, 1905.
Year of Publication:1905
Language:English
Series:Essays in Ethnographic Theory
Physical Description:1 online resource (179 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. (Un)familiar violence
  • Violence degree zero
  • Mistreated subjects and intractable violence
  • Chapter 2. Wavering intentions
  • Recognize and speak the violence!
  • Maltrattamenti in famiglia and the abused subject
  • The experience of intimate partner violence: A crime with a story
  • Chapter 3. Confessing victimhood
  • Evidence and testimonial proof
  • The burden of evidence: experience
  • When evidence lies in the victim subject
  • Chapter 4. The gender of true-lying
  • The burden of persuasion: intention and biased evidence
  • Agency vs credibility
  • Oblique narratives: the imperfect victim
  • Conclusions.

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