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100 1 _aMichelson, Ethan,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDecoupling :
_bgender injustice in China's divorce courts /
_cEthan Michelson, Indiana Unversity-Bloomington.
263 _a2202
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2021.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aCambridge studies in law and society
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aSisyphus goes to divorce court -- The right to decouple -- The divorce twofer: why court behavior is decoupled from the right to decouple -- Studying judicial decision-making: court decisions in Henan and Zhejiang -- "Many cases, few judges" and the vanishing three-judge trial -- Tracing the origins of the divorce twofer to heavy caseloads -- How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce trials -- Divorce denials: judicial discourse and judicial decision-making -- Fight or flight: consequences of the judicial clampdown on divorce -- Possession is nine-tenths of the law: why wife-beaters gain child custody -- Quantitative patterns in child custody determinations: sons to fathers, daughters to mothers, abusers rewarded, victims punished -- Conclusions: assessing the impact of law by observing judicial behavior.
520 _a"Not long after immersing myself in this project, I began to visualize Sisyphus going to divorce court. His fate is an apt metaphor for the protracted and sometimes futile uphill struggle of China's mostly female divorce plaintiffs, whose petitions will almost certainly fail at first - even in cases involving domestic violence, regardless of the severity of the allegations or the strength of the evidence. Many plaintiffs give up on litigation, either resigning themselves to staying married to their abusers or pursuing divorce through civil government channels outside the court system. Of those who do return to court, most will eventually succeed, albeit sometimes only after multiple attempts and long delays"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650 0 _aDivorce
_zChina.
650 0 _aDivorce
_xLaw and legislation
_zChina.
650 0 _aWomen
_zChina
_xSocial conditions.
650 7 _aLAW / General
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMichelson, Ethan.
_tDecoupling
_dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
_z9781108487856
_w(DLC) 2021050097
856 _uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decoupling/505E2B8DBFBBD6668F9DC21297788CBE
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