Introduction: Witness

The photo itself shows one of several ways the artists challenge viewers to do so: a visitor to the museum must physically carry a (large and relatively heavy) marker through the special carpet-map of the city the artists installed in the Jewish museum-a map on which no street names are listed-to le...

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Published inWomen's Studies Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 1/2; pp. 13 - 27
Main Authors Abrams, Kathryn, Kacandes, Irene
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published New York The Feminist Press 01.04.2008
Feminist Press
Subjects
Essays
Females
Feminism
Hirsch, Marianne
Jews
Moral Issues
Sexual harassment
Undergraduate Students
Womens studies
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Summary:The photo itself shows one of several ways the artists challenge viewers to do so: a visitor to the museum must physically carry a (large and relatively heavy) marker through the special carpet-map of the city the artists installed in the Jewish museum-a map on which no street names are listed-to learn about the particular point of interest a place may have had at a specific time in the city's history.\n Yet slowly, and often painfully, feminist lawyers are beginning to reconsider the law's relationship to victimization. (For another view of how feminism might be reenergized by more plural or fluid understandings of those who are its subjects, see Angela Harris's review of two books on the transgender movement.) Feminist legal scholars such as Elizabeth Schneider (2000) and Martha Mahoney (1991) have argued that advocates must help courts to see the partial agency (and the struggle for power and control) in the lives of battered women, rather than seeing these women as wholly compromised victims.
ISSN:0732-1562
1934-1520
1934-1520
DOI:10.1353/wsq.0.0043