商品簡介
Resource mobilization theory is the tool the author uses 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 women's movement has been co-opted, she 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 the movement in Ohio as a precedent-setting case study, she analyzes the events in six other states where large-scale clemencies have been attempted or achieved. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
