Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence

Leigh Goodmark, JD from Standford University School of Law, is a professor of law, director of Clinical Education and Family Law Clinic, and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law.Rashmi Goel, LLB, JSM, and current JSD candidate at Stanford University School of Law, is an associate professor of comparative and criminal law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

• Foreword ; Part I. Pushing Law: Legislating Gender Violence Worldwide ; 1. Exporting Without License: The American Attempt to End Intimate Partner Abuse Worldwide by Leigh Goodmark ; 2. Gaps and Challenges in States' Response in the Quest to Eliminate Violence Against Women-A Global Perspective by Rashida Manjoo ; Part II. Developing a Legal Response ; 3. Operating in a Narrow Space to Effect Change: Development of a Legal System Response to Domestic Violence in China by Robin Runge ; 4. The Vital Role of Grassroots Movements in Combatting Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Abuse in Haiti by Nicole Phillips ; 5. Violence against Palestinian Women in the West Bank by Nadera Shalhoub-Krevorkian and Adrien K. Wing ; III. Tackling Specifics: The Lessons of Implementation ; 6. Lessons from the Local: Rurality and Responses to Intimate Partner Abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States by Johanna Bond and Elizabeth Bruch ; 7. <"In the Good Times and the Bad>": Gendered Notions, Economic Inequality, Intimate Partner Violence and Lessons from Chile to Move Beyond Judicial Reform by Nia Parson ; 8. Coaxing Culture-India's Legislative Response to Dowry Deaths by Rashmi Goel ; IV. Still Work to Do: The Continuing Evolution of the Legal Response ; 9. An American in St Patrick's Court: Gender-Violence, Gender Inequality and the Irish Feminist Response by Kris Miccio ; 10. Family Law Reform and Domestic Violence: Lessons from Australia by Molly Dragiewicz ; 11. The Economics of Gender Violence in Norway: A Comparative Approach by Julie Goldschied ; 12. Domestic Abuse: Feminism, the Government and the Unique Case of Scotland by Nancy Lombard and Nel Whiting ; 13. Alternative U.S. Responses to Intimate Partner Violence by Donna Coker and ; Ahjane Macquoid ; Notes ; References ; Index

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