TY - SER AU - Meier, Joan S. AU - Dickson, Sean TI - Mapping gender : : shedding empirical light on Family Courts' treatment in cases of abuse and alienation PY - 2017/// PB - University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, KW - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - FAMILY COURT KW - GENDER KW - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE KW - JUSTICE KW - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KW - CONTACT (ACCESS) KW - UNITED STATES N1 - Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 2017, 35(2): 311-334 N2 - "This article provides a brief literature survey, focusing on the theory of “parental alienation” which operates as a primary vehicle for making abuse invisible in custody litigation. This Article reports on the co-authors’ pilot study, which begins empirically mapping family courts’ uses of this theory. These pilot results provide preliminary empirical support for the critiques from the field." (From the introduction). Record #5515 UR - http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/lawineq/vol35/iss2/10 ER -