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03459aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DBD4D3FCAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 211112t20222022enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021050097 020 $a 110873815X 020 $a 9781108738156 020 $a 1108487858 020 $a 9781108487856 035 $a (OCoLC)1285371196 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a HQ940 $b .M53 2022 084 $a LAW000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Michelson, Ethan, $e author. 245 10 $a Decoupling : $b gender injustice in China's divorce courts / $c Ethan Michelson, Indiana Unversity Bloomington. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xviii, 544 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in law and society 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "Not long after immersing myself in this project, I began to visualize Sisyphus going to divorce court. His fate is an apt metaphor for the protracted and sometimes futile uphill struggle of China's mostly female divorce plaintiffs, whose petitions will almost certainly fail at first - even in cases involving domestic violence, regardless of the severity of the allegations or the strength of the evidence. Many plaintiffs give up on litigation, either resigning themselves to staying married to their abusers or pursuing divorce through civil government channels outside the court system. Of those who do return to court, most will eventually succeed, albeit sometimes only after multiple attempts and long delays"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Divorce $z China. 650 0 $a Divorce $x Law and legislation $z China. 650 0 $a Women $z China $x Social conditions. 650 6 $a Divorce $z Chine. 650 6 $a Femmes $z Chine $x Conditions sociales. 650 7 $a LAW / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Divorce. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895809 650 7 $a Divorce $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895818 650 7 $a Women $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176947 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 776 08 $i Online version: $a Michelson, Ethan. $t Decoupling $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108768177 $w (DLC) 2021050098 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in law and society. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717020318.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBD4D3FCAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search