Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I. Domestic Violence as a Social and Legal Problem
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. The Battered Women’s Movement and the Problem of Domestic Violence 11
7. 3. Dimensions of Feminist Lawmaking on Battering 29
8. Part II. Theoretical Dimensions of Feminist Lawmaking on Battering
9. 4. Defining, Identifying, and Strategizing 59
10. 5. Beyond Victimization and Agency 74
11. 6. The Violence of Privacy 87
12. Part III. Implementing Feminist Lawmaking
13. 7. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, and Legal Practice 101
14. 8. Battered Women Who Kill 112
15. 9. Motherhood and Battering 148
16. Part IV. Aspirations, Limits, and Possibilities
17. 10. Engaging with the State 181
18. 11. Lawmaking as Education 199
19. 12. Education as Lawmaking 211
20. 13. Feminist Lawmaking, Violence, and Equality 228
21. Notes 233
22. Index 301