Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking Author:Elizabeth M. Schneider 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 led the U. S. Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem. Written by a leading ... more »expert on violence against women, the book chronicles and assesses this crucial contribution of the women's rights struggle.« less