“[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense —the Innocent Woman Principle : Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 255.

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