Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash

by Molly Dragiewicz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555537391
• ISBN13: 9781555537395
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"