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Intimate Lies and the Law

By Hasday, Jill Elaine

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Intimate Lies and the Law

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Jill Elaine Hasday's Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships. Intimacy and deception are often entangled. People deceive to lure someone into a relationship or to keep her there, to drain an intimate's bank account or to use her to acquire government benefits, to control an intimate or to resist domination, or to capture myriad other advantages. No subject isimmune from deception in dating, sex, marriage, and family life. Intimates can lie or otherwise intentionally mislead each other about anything and everything. Suppose you discover that an intimate has deceived you and inflicted severe-even life-altering-financial, physical, or emotional harm. After the initial shock and sadness, you might wonder whether the law will help you secure redress. But the legal system refuses to help most people deceived withinan intimate relationship. Courts and legislatures have shielded this persistent and pervasive source of injury, routinely denying deceived intimates access to the remedies that are available for deceit in other contexts. Intimate Lies and the Law is the first book that systematically examines deception in intimate relationships and uncovers the hidden body of law governing this duplicity. Hasday argues that the law has placed too much emphasis on protecting intimate deceivers and too little importance on helping thepeople they deceive. The law can and should do more to recognize, prevent, and redress the injuries that intimate deception can inflict.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2021-08-03
Publication Date:
2021-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197619037
ISBN13:
9780197619032
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
465 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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