This book investigates efforts by fathers' rights groups to undermine battered women's shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v. Hvass, in which fathers' rights groups attempted to use an Equal Protection claim to argue that funding emergency services that target battered women is discriminatory against men. As Dragiewicz shows, this case (which was eventually dismissed) is relevant to widespread efforts to promote a degendered understanding of violence against women in order to eradicate policies and programs that were designed to ameliorate harm to battered women.
- ISBN10 1555537561
- ISBN13 9781555537562
- Publish Date 12 April 2011
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northeastern University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 168
- Language English