Shades of Grey - Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women
Law Reform and Society
Anna Carline, Patricia Easteal
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Shades of Grey - Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women
Law Reform and Society
Anna Carline, Patricia Easteal
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Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women. Adopting an explicitly feminist perspective, it investigates how legal responses to violence against women presuppose, maintain and perpetuate a certain context that may not in fact reflect women's experiences.
Carline and Easteal draw upon relevant legislation, case law and secondary studies from a range of territories, including Australia, England and Wales, the United States, Canada and Europe, to contextualize and critique different policy responses. They go on to examine the potential and limits of law, making recommendations for best practice models of policymaking and law reform.
Aiming to help improve government, community and legal responses to women who experience violence, Shades of Grey – Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women: Law Reform and Society will assist law-makers, academics, policymakers and a wider audience in understanding the complexities of violence against women.
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1 Introduction
Magnitude of the issues: our raison d’être
The feminist and holistic perspective
As a democratic enterprise, feminism has had to forfeit the presumption that at base we can all agree about some things or, equivalently, to embrace the notion that each of our most treasured values are under contestation and that they will remain contested zones of politics.77 J. Butler, Undoing Gender, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 175
systemic beliefs and behaviour … are predicated on the view that women do not have the fundamental right to be part of society beyond the home … [T]he misogyny factor is that set of attitudes and entrenched practices that are embedded in most of our major institutions (business, politics, the military, the media, the church, academia) that stand in the way of women being included, treated equally and accorded respect …17...