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Lisa R Pruitt

Feminism

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How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down On The Farm, Lisa R. Pruitt Dec 2009

How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down On The Farm, Lisa R. Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

This is a contribution to a collection of autobiographical essays, “One-L Revisited,” in which authors reflect on their experiences as first-year law students. The author of this essay recounts her experiences at the University of Arkansas School of Law (1986-87). She frames her recollections primarily in relation to her rural, working-class background and her later-acquired feminist politics.

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Place Matters: Domestic Violence And Rural Difference, Lisa R. Pruitt Jan 2008

Place Matters: Domestic Violence And Rural Difference, Lisa R. Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

This Article considers the phenomenon of domestic violence in relation to the rural-urban axis. Written for a symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at the University of Wisconsin, it assesses the difference that rurality makes to the occurrence, investigation, prosecution, and judicial decision-making regarding this crime. Among the factors analyzed are spatial or geographic isolation, along with the social isolation and lack of anonymity it fosters; severe economic disadvantage; the entrenched nature of rural patriarchy; and legal actors who are often ill-informed about domestic violence and constrained by limited resources. These rural differences are …

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