Battered Women's Justice

by Patricia Gagne

Resource mobilization theory is used to examine the history of the movement to grant clemency to women jailed for killing or assaulting the men who abused them. Countering the view of some analysts that the battered womens movement has been co-opted, the author steps away from the shelters as the focus of her study and examines the work of activists, social movement communities, informal networks, and national organizations. After drawing upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805791507
• ISBN13: 9780805791501
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"