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Tuerkheimer, Deborah. "Pregnancy Battering and the Construction of Victimhood" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society, J.W. Marriott Resort, Las Vegas, NV, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p17391_index.html>

Tuerkheimer, D. "Pregnancy Battering and the Construction of Victimhood" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society, J.W. Marriott Resort, Las Vegas, NV <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p17391_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: For many domestic violence victims, there is a vast disconnect between life and its representation in culture and law. Women who are battered by their intimates experience a range of suffering that is largely hidden from sociolegal view. Injury is inaptly defined or wholly overlooked, resulting in a socially sanctioned denial of widespread phenomenologies. Victims of domestic violence often describe a history of battering that begins, or escalates, during pregnancy. What becomes obvious to those who hear their stories is that pregnancy battering is a problem of immense proportions. Yet this recognition is confined, for the most part, to a relatively small community of advocates and practitioners; the contours and dimensions of the problem have simply not seeped into social discourse or permeated the boundaries of law. This paper will explore the nature of pregnancy battering and the criminal law's response to it. Absent from law's account is the suffering experienced by a woman who is battered while pregnant. Feminist theory, which might be expected to provide a framework that addresses criminal law's inadequacies, itself offers an incomplete understanding of pregnancy. In order to challenge law's flawed definition of pregnancy battering, a richer, more complex story must be told. By integrating two strands of feminist scholarship that have developed largely in opposition to one another, my aim is to conceptualize pregnancy in a manner that animates an affirmative vision for criminal justice functioning in this realm.

Medicalization of the Battered Woman: A Historical-Social Construction of the Battered Woman Syndrome

The Construction of Gendered Selves among Latino Battered Women: The Practice of the Gender Violence Law in a Spanish Court.

The Construction of Teenage Pregnancy as Different Kinds of Problems in Sweden and the United States