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Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation | 
 enlarge | Author: Mindie Lazarus-black
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 365572
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0252074084
Dewey Decimal Number: 345.7298302555
EAN: 9780252074080
ASIN: 0252074084
Publication Date: May 18, 2007
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By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, "Everyday Harm" studies the limits of what domestic violence law can - and cannot - accomplish. Combining detailed ethnographic research and theoretical analysis, Mindie Lazarus-Black illustrates the ways persistent cultural norms and ingrained bureaucratic procedures work to unravel laws designed to protect the safety of society's most vulnerable people. Lazarus-Black's fieldwork in Trinidad traces a story with global implications about why and when people gain the right to ask the court for protection from violence, and what happens when they pursue those rights in court. Why is it that, in spite of laws designed to empower subordinated people, so little results from that legislation? What happens in and around courts that makes it so difficult for people to obtain their legally available rights and protections? In the case of domestic violence law, what can such legislation mean for women's empowerment, gender equity, and protection? How do cultural norms and practices intercept the law?
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EVERYDAY HARM March 22, 2008
Judith Hermitt
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An engrossing exploration of legal reform to address the problem
of domestic violence. Professor Lazarus-Black details domestic violence as impeded by everyday practices of law and courts. I found the individual case studies of battered women seeking legal protection most absorbing, especially in light of the pointed discussion of cultural and political change.
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