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At Home in the Law - Suk, Jeannie - Yale University Press
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Sep 28, 2009
216 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN: 9780300113983
ISBN-10: 0300113986
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Cloth: $55.00 sc
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At Home in the LawHow the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy
In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices. Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law. She argues that the growing legal vision that has led to the breakdown of traditional boundaries between public and private space is resulting in a substantial reduction of autonomy and privacy for both women and men.
Jeannie Suk is an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Senior Fellow of the Humanities Center at Harvard. A former Supreme Court law clerk, she studied literature at Yale and Oxford, and law at Harvard.
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