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 | Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking by Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-300-09411-6 / 0300094116 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09411-4 / 9780300094114 For most of history, the law permitted men to "chastise" their wives. Common law explicitly recognized a man's right to beat his wife with a stick, as long as the stick was no thicker than his thumb (it is from this tradition that we derive the phrase "rule of thumb"). Men who beat their wives were, | |