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Author Suk, Jeannie

Title At home in the law : how the domestic violence revolution is transforming privacy / Jeannie Suk
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
Contents Home crime -- Criminal law comes home -- Scenes of self-defense -- Taking the home -- Is privacy a woman?
Summary In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices.Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law. She argues that the growing legal vision that has led to the breakdown of traditional boundaries between public and private space is resulting in a substantial reduction of autonomy and privacy for both women and men
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Family violence -- Law and legislation -- United States
Feminist jurisprudence -- United States
Privacy, Right of -- United States
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Family violence -- Law and legislation
Feminist jurisprudence
Privacy, Right of
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0300156359
9780300156355
9786612352652
6612352655