TY - DATA AU - Michelson, Ethan TI - Decoupling: gender injustice in China's divorce courts SN - 9781108768177 AV - HQ 940 M52D 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - DIVORCE KW - CHINA KW - WOMEN KW - SOCIAL CONDITIONS KW - LAW AND LEGISLATION N1 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177 ER -