TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Rhetorically Reconfiguring Victimhood and Agency: The Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Clause
JO  - Rhetoric and public affairs
A1  - Picart, Caroline Joan
SP  - 97
EP  - 125
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - In this article I examine the rhetorical dimensions of feminist lawmaking on rape and battering, as instantiated in Violence Against Women Act, and ask why this controversial act, and in particular its civil rights remedy, resulted in ambiguous gains. Current popular and legal interpretations of "agency" (labeled the "reasonable man" standard) and of "victimhood" leave battered women in a double bind.<p /> 
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SN  - 1094-8392
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rap.2003.0035
ID  - ref1
ER  -