Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts

ISBN-13: 9781108738156 / Miękka / 2023 / 571 str.

Bloomington) Michelson Ethan (Indiana University

Opis

Explores how China's divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.

Recenzje

'Decoupling is an ambitious and fascinating study that illuminates the discrepancy between China's official promotion of gender equality and the reality faced by many women. Michelson superbly demonstrates how institutional forces and patriarchy together undermine China's marriage laws and result in systematic injustice against women in divorce courts and violence in their homes. This rich and gripping book is relevant to all gender and family scholars.' Wei-hsin Yu, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Sisyphus goes to divorce court; 2. The right to decouple; 3. The divorce twofer: Why court behavior is decoupled from the right to decouple; 4. Studying judicial decision-making: Court decisions in Henan and Zhejiang; 5. 'Many cases, few judges' and the vanishing three-judge trial; 6. Tracing the origins of the divorce twofer to heavy caseloads; 7. How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce trials; 8. Divorce denials: Judicial discourse and judicial decision-making; 9. Fight or flight: Consequences of the judicial clampdown on divorce; 10. Possession is nine-tenths of the law: Why wife-beaters gain child custody; 11. Quantitative patterns in child custody determinations: Sons to fathers, daughters to mothers, abusers rewarded, victims punished; 12. Conclusions: Assessing the impact of law by observing judicial behavior; References; Index.