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Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash

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Investigates efforts by fathers' rights groups to undermine battered women's shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v. Hvass, in which fathers' rights groups attempted to use an Equal Protection claim to argue that funding emergency services that target battered women is discriminatory against men. As Dragiewicz shows, this case (which was eventually dismissed) is relevant to widespread efforts to promote a degendered understanding of violence against women in order to eradicate policies and programs that were designed to ameliorate harm to battered women.

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Introduction
1 Key Contexts
2 Booth v Hvass
3 Popular Discourses
4 Batterer Narratives
5 Sex Differences
6 Gender and Patriarchy
7 Conclusion
References
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