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In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices. Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy, and property in order to illuminate the changing relation between home and the law. She argues that the growing legal vision that has led to the breakdown of traditional boundaries between public and private space is resulting in a substantial reduction of autonomy and privacy for both women and men.

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"""'A fascinating analysis of our changing conceptions of privacy, gender, and the reach of the law. Suk's incisive analyses are expressed in engaging prose and enlivened with gripping examples. The book will be just as interesting to lay people as it is to legal scholars.' (Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought)"""

'A fascinating analysis of our changing conceptions of privacy, gender, and the reach of the law. Suk's incisive analyses are expressed in engaging prose and enlivened with gripping examples. The book will be just as interesting to lay people as it is to legal scholars.' (Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought)

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Jeannie Suk is assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.

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