期刊名称：Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
印刷版ISSN：0017-8039
电子版ISSN：1943-5061
出版年度：2008
卷号：43
期号：01
出版社：Harvard Law School
摘要：When Bonnie Woodring went to court to seek an order of protection
from abuse by her husband—as so many women in this country do every
day—she checked off boxes on the court form identifying six places where
she wished to be shielded: her home, her workplace, her child’s school, her
child’s day care, any place where she might be receiving ‘temporary shelter,’
and ‘other.’ For ‘other,’ she wrote in “stores (Walmart) within 50-100 feet.”1
In effect, when battered women2 check off such boxes, they are selecting
circumscribed areas where they may be free from violence, conceding the
persistence of danger outside of them. The forms reflect the common under-
standing that such places are sites of expected re-assault by the batterer, but
underlying this accurate assumption is a far more troubling proposition: the
state is acknowledging its inability or unwillingness to protect women
outside of these spaces.
