The papers examine the effects of the feminist movement of the last decade on the responsiveness of the law to women's needs and interests and the possibilities and limits of the law in the context of domestic violence. They also focus on sex discrimination in the law and legal practice, judicial attitudes, violence against Aboriginal women, the role of mediation in addressing domestic violence, and the battered woman syndrome. Chapter reference notes, index, list of statutes, appended diagram and text of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and approximately 300 references