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Article: Black eyes all of the time: intimate violence, Aboriginal women, and the justice system.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Black Eyes All Of The Time By Anne McGillivray and Brenda Comaskey University of Toronto Press 200 pages (2c)
In the book Black Eyes All of the Time, Intimate Violence, Aboriginal Women, and the Justice System, authors Anne McGillivray and Brenda Comaskey explore justice reforms that were intended to reduce domestic violence in Manitoba's Native communities. This book chronicles 26 Aboriginal women and their experiences of abuse, first as children, and then as wives and as mothers. Through the accounts of the women's experiences the authors were able to conclude that the criminal justice system's negligent responses to intimate violence often put Aboriginal women ...