More Than Victims

Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

Donald Alexander Downs author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:5th Dec '96

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts women more generally. Also explored in the work is the "Syndrome Society" more generally. The author asserts that justice can be achieved without stripping victims of reason and reponsibility - the very attributes that make citizenship possible.

ISBN: 9780226161594

Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm

Weight: 567g

317 pages