Biography
Dianne Post graduated from University of Wisconsin in 1969 with a B.A. in Correctional Administration and worked at the California Youth Authority. She attended San Jose State College and obtained a Masters Degree in 1973 in Psychology and worked at a state mental hospital in an alcoholic ward and in the movement to close down large mental health institutions and move people into smaller community-based treatment centers. She graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School in 1979. After 18 years of representing battered women and molested children in court, she began to do international human rights work on violence against women.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Post, Dianne L. (2020) "The Female Face of Misogyny: A Review of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence by Leigh Goodmark and The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration by Aya Gruber," Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence: Vol. 5: Iss. 3, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2020.05.03.07
Included in
Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, Criminology Commons, Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legal Remedies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, Social Justice Commons