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Suzanne Steinmetz and her family received verbal threats (both in public and at home), threatening phone calls, and bomb threats because she was one of the first researchers to bring up “battered husbands.” Women’s rights activists lobbied to block her from receiving tenure.
Topic: Feminist Activism
Source
Citation: Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, p. 801
Author(s): Kelly
Institution(s): Indiana University
Link: http://archive.law.fsu.edu/Journals/lawreview/downloads/304/kelly.pdf
Nation(s): United States
Year(s): 1997
Source: Secondary
Type: Journal
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