Institution: | * Ruth Lewis, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. This paper was written while the author was Parsons Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, University of Sydney, Australia. The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable contributions to this paper, and the research from which it stems, by R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash and Kate Cavanagh. Thanks also to anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. |