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Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity

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Kamir Orit, Every Breath You Take: Stalking Narratives and the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 245 pages. $55.

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Gad Barzilai
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Law & Society Review , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 867 - 884
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I am very much grateful to Martha Merrill Umphrey for her excellent remarks and suggestions. The responsibility is mine.

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