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The Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, And Changing Attitudes Toward Female Victims Of Domestic Violence, Carolyn B. Ramsey
The Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, And Changing Attitudes Toward Female Victims Of Domestic Violence, Carolyn B. Ramsey
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This Article presents a hypothesis suggesting how and why the criminal justice response to domestic violence changed, over the course of the twentieth century, from sympathy for abused women and a surprising degree of state intervention in intimate relationships to the apathy and discrimination that the battered women' movement exposed. The riddle of declining public sympathy for female victims of intimate-partner violence can only be solved by looking beyond the criminal law to the social and legal changes that created the Exit Myth.
While the situation that gave rise to the battered women's movement in the 1970s is often presumed …
The Retirement Equity Act: An Accommodation Of Competing Interests, Sherry A. Fabina
The Retirement Equity Act: An Accommodation Of Competing Interests, Sherry A. Fabina
Indiana Law Journal
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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
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Criminal Law--Habitual Criminal--Right of Accused to Counsel under Fourteenth Amendment
Divorce--Alimony Decree Terminating upon Remarriage of Wife--Effect of Annulment of Subsequent Marriage
Divorce--Statutory Modification of Domiciliary Jurisdiction--Congressional Limitation of Power of Territorial Legislature
Labor Law--Unfair Labor Practice--Primary Jurisdiction in NLRB
Life Insurance--Good Health Clause--Existence of Malady Unknown to Insured
Nuisance--Liability for Non-Trespassory Interference with the Use and Enjoyment of Land--Intentional Invasion
Wills--Holographic Codicil--Publication of an Invalid Typewritten Will