Decoupling : [electronic resource] gender injustice in China's divorce courts /
Michelson, Ethan
Decoupling : gender injustice in China's divorce courts / [electronic resource] Ethan Michelson, Indiana Unversity-Bloomington - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 - online resource
Sisyphus 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
9781108768177
DIVORCE--CHINA
WOMEN--SOCIAL CONDITIONS--CHINA
DIVORCE--LAW AND LEGISLATION--CHINA
HQ 940 / M52D 2022
Decoupling : gender injustice in China's divorce courts / [electronic resource] Ethan Michelson, Indiana Unversity-Bloomington - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 - online resource
Sisyphus 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
9781108768177
DIVORCE--CHINA
WOMEN--SOCIAL CONDITIONS--CHINA
DIVORCE--LAW AND LEGISLATION--CHINA
HQ 940 / M52D 2022