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Trifling Violence: The U.S. Supreme Court, Domestic Violence And The Golden Rule, Jeffrey R. Baker
Trifling Violence: The U.S. Supreme Court, Domestic Violence And The Golden Rule, Jeffrey R. Baker
Jeffrey R Baker
Domestic violence is ubiquitous across eras, cultures, religions and political systems. Feminist responses to domestic violence seek to free women from gender subjugation, but such movement inevitably challenges moral and natural claims about marriage and family in traditional society. These traditions often claim religious and moral authority, while reformers often have overreacted by abandoning established moral thought in favor of relativistic, individual moral discernment. This tension is manifest in the struggle at common law to adjust moral language to the gradual, radical evolution of gender status and marriage. The plight of women and girls in the developing world is the …
Trifling Violence: The U.S. Supreme Court, Domestic Violence And The Golden Rule, Jeffrey R. Baker
Trifling Violence: The U.S. Supreme Court, Domestic Violence And The Golden Rule, Jeffrey R. Baker
Jeffrey R Baker
Domestic violence is ubiquitous across eras, cultures, religions and political systems. Despite forty years of feminist reform in the developed West, the status of women and girls remains the foremost global human rights issue of this century. Feminist responses to domestic violence seek to free women from gender subjugation, but such movement inevitably challenges moral and natural claims about marriage and family in traditional society. These traditions claim religious and moral authority but neglect greater antecedent principles, while reformers often have overreacted by abandoning established moral thought in favor of relativistic, individual discernment. Contemporary feminist movements should appeal to the …