"Hitting is not manly": Domestic violence court and the re-imagination of the patriarchal state

Gender and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 781-804

  Mirchandani, Rekha ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Problem solving courts; Social change; Social movements; The state

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750466574     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243206292002     Document Type: Article

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