Description:
Investigates how students in a clinical legal education program learned to advocate effectively and ethically with clients abused by intimate partners. Demonstrates the importance of valuing clients as experts in their own lives and as equal partners in decision making.
Brief description: Elizabeth C. Britt is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility.
Review Quotes:
"A really powerful book. Reimaging Advocacy makes a strong and sustained case for intervening in calcified systems of gendered abuse. This text is well supported and provides a great deal of richness by weaving together interviews and vivid reflections about a system that is all too often broken for the victims most in need. Importantly, Britt doesn't succumb to the cynicism that is so in vogue in academic scholarship; instead, she does the hard work of producing creative, productive criticism that offers alternative frameworks and practices for aiding victims of abuse."
--Suzanne Enck, University of North Texas