"Hitting is not Manly": Domestic Violence Court and the Re-Imagination of the Patriarchal State  

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Mirchandani, Rekha

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 20 no. 06 (Dec. 2006), page 781-804.
Topik: problem-solving courts; domestic violence; social movements; the state; social change
Fulltext: 781.pdf (119.07KB)

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In this study, the author investigates how the battered women’s movement has transformed the treatment of domestic violence in Salt Lake City’s specialized domestic violence court. Using Lisa Brush’s account of how the state promotes the dominance of men and the disadvantage of women, the author shows that Salt Lake City’s domestic violence court transforms both its governance of gender and its gender of governance, lending support to optimistic theories of the state. The author argues that this court is an example of a state institution that has been transformed into a feminist regime committed to individual and social change. The author encourages feminist theorists to engage with the work of Jurgen Habermas to better conceptualize the potentially positive relations among the state, social movements, and social change.

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