Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2000
OCLC FAST subject heading
Civil rights
Abstract
In the provocative book A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man, Caroline Forell and Donna Matthews argue that existing law systematically undervalues women's experiences of sexual harassment and sexual violence. In essence, the authors contend that law is a "warrior code" that is unduly forgiving of sexual aggression and violence, and they support this contention by showing how "male-centered values" permeate the law of sexual harassment, stalking, domestic violence, and rape. This critique alone would make this work worthy of serious consideration by anyone concerned with the law's treatment of women.
Recommended Citation
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman and the "Warrior Code", (reviewing Caroline A. Forell & Donna M. Matthews, A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man (2000)), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/231
Comments
Originally published on Jurist: Books in Law (2000). See http://jurist.org/archive/