Through the Lens of Feminism: State Responses to Domestic Abuse
Summarising key historical moments, this chapter shows how feminists uncovered intimate partner abuse and rendered it an undeniable social problem. The chapter surveys feminist explanations about the gendered nature of domestic abuse and interrogates the
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Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Neoliberal Times Amplifying the Survivor’s Voice
Antonia Porter
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Antonia Porter
Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Neoliberal Times Amplifying the Survivor's Voice
Antonia Porter Kent Law School University of Kent Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Acknowledgements
This book could not have been completed without the funding that I received from the University of Kent’s 50th-anniversary bursary or from the postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (in the guise of the South East Network for Social Sciences). I am ever grateful for being given
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