TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender violence and legally engendered selves
AU - Merry, S. E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements: Research for this paper hasbeen generously supported by twogrants from theAnthropology and the Law and Society Programs of the National Science Foundation, 1991— #SES-9023397 and 1994 #SBR-9320009, and by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am grateful for the help of my research assistants: Marilyn Brown, Joy Adapon, Tami
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The collaboration of feminist activists and the law provides new possibilities for protecting women from male violence. It offers new gender identities to both women and men. Battered women are offered legally endowed selves while men encounter the criminalization of violent behavior viewed as "natural' to men. By endowing women with autonomous selves who can choose to stay or leave a violent man, but by failing to provide the economic means to leave such men, the discourse of the courts reconstructs women who fail to leave as undeserving of help. The study focuses on a violence control program in a small town in Hawai'i during a period of rapid social and economic change which has opened a space for new legal initiatives against domestic violence. -from Author
AB - The collaboration of feminist activists and the law provides new possibilities for protecting women from male violence. It offers new gender identities to both women and men. Battered women are offered legally endowed selves while men encounter the criminalization of violent behavior viewed as "natural' to men. By endowing women with autonomous selves who can choose to stay or leave a violent man, but by failing to provide the economic means to leave such men, the discourse of the courts reconstructs women who fail to leave as undeserving of help. The study focuses on a violence control program in a small town in Hawai'i during a period of rapid social and economic change which has opened a space for new legal initiatives against domestic violence. -from Author
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U2 - 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962526
DO - 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962526
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029531150
VL - 2
SP - 49
EP - 73
JO - Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
JF - Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
SN - 1070-289X
IS - 1-2
ER -