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Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney
Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney
Michigan Law Review
Part I of this article discusses violence in the ordinary lives of women, describing individual and societal denial that pretends domestic violence is rare when statistics show it is common, and describing the ways in which motherhood shapes women's experience of violence and choices in response to violence. Part II examines definitions of battering and evaluates their effectiveness at disguising or revealing the struggle for control at the heart of the battering process. I then describe in Part III the pressures that self-defense and custody cases place on legal and cultural images of battered women and contrast the development of …
The Uses And Abuses Of Incumbency: People V. Ohrenstein And The Limits Of Inherent Legislative Power, James A. Gardner
The Uses And Abuses Of Incumbency: People V. Ohrenstein And The Limits Of Inherent Legislative Power, James A. Gardner
Fordham Law Review
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