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Is a Man's Car More Important than a Battered Woman's Body? Human Rights and Punishment for Violent Crimes against Female Spouses

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Anat First at Netanya Academic College
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Michal Agmon Gonnen at federal courts Israel
Michal Agmon Gonnen
  • federal courts Israel
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The study examines, through textual analysis, the narrative of verdicts in violent crimes of men against their female spouses in Israel, and compares them with vehicle-related crimes through an examination of human rights discourse. The comparison with vehicle-related crimes, taken from other legal discourse of property crimes, was selected in order to examine whether the rights to life and dignity include women, or whether women are perceived as property akin to a vehicle. Moreover, the article clarifies whether the position of women in legal discourse in Israel has changed from subject to object, whereas vehicles have changed from object to subject. © 2009 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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