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remedy or recourse.108 The cultural stakes for maintaining domestic violence as a private crime
were high; bringing domestic abuse out in the open had the potential to create resistance that
threatened established hierarchies. The character of this resistance had multiple potentialities and
still does, but an examination of the trajectory as it occurred is critical to understand the missteps
that continually perpetuate themselves through a myopic understanding of patriarchy as the only
relevant nexus of oppression.
Domestic violence prevention activists have made great strides in debunking some of the
problematic notions of femininity and gendered power differentials over time; slowly, men and
women began to break the silence of intimate partner violence. As a result, legal remedies
emerged to combat the legal system's silence on the question of domestic violence.109 Despite
these gains, however, the limited focus of modern activists has often failed to address many of
the discursive formations that contributed to the acceptance of intimate violence in the first place.
Kay Picart notes, most extant legal remedies were won via the construction of a rational male
subject and thus fail to speak to the lived experiences of women.110 In order to remain intelligible
in a patriarchal society, domestic violence discourses were encoded in a legal system that was
thoroughly gendered, thus buttressing gender stereotypes in the name of preventing future
violence. In the same way, domestic violence laws that fail to adequately appreciate unique racial
mythologies of society and how they affect the legal system, cannot provide the fullest justice to
black men and women.
108 Adele M. Morrison, "Multi-Cultural Survivor," Lexis Nexis Academic Universe.
109 Schneider, Battered Women, 23.
110 Caroline Joan "Kay" Picart, "Rhetorically Reconfiguring Victimhood and Agency: The Violence
Against Women Act's Civil Rights Clause," Rhetoric and Public Affairs 6, no. 1 (2003) 97-8, Project Muse. For
more analysis of the ways in which supposedly feminist laws promote masculine privilege, see Meredith Render,
"The Man, The State, and You: The role of the State in Regulating Gender Hierarchies," American University
Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 14, no. 73 (2006): Lexis Nexis Academic Universe.48
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Sabino, Lauren. Booty Calls, Rage, and Racialized/sexualized Subjects: Tmz's Coverage of Rihanna and Chris Brown, thesis, August 2011; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177250/m1/53/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .