Contents -- A Word Before -- Notes on Documentation and Usage -- 1. The Canon�s New Clothes -- 2. The Third Man -- 3. Isabella�s Dowry -- 4. Mathias� Pence -- 5. Rumor Mill -- 6. Our Dear Lady on the Sharp Hill -- 7. Pulling Up Tares -- 8. Three Pastors -- 9. The Trouble with Peace -- 10. A Schoolboy from Diest -- 11. Table Talk -- 12. Ladies of the Garden -- 13. Sisters of theWorld -- 14. The Sportsman�s Mass -- 15. Almost Eternity -- 16. Mathias at Rest -- A Word After: How We Found Mathias -- Glossary -- Sources -- Acknowledgments
Summary
As recently as the 1960s the harm of domestic violence was not legally recognized. This book examines how pathbreaking feminist activists and lawyers have brought the severity of domestic violence to public attention since then and have led the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-372) and index
