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Despite the apparent progress in women's legal status, the law retains a profoundly male bias, and as such contributes to the pervasive violence and injustice against women. In A Law of Her Own, the authors propose to radically change law's fundamental paradigm by introducing a ""reasonable woman standard"" for measuring men's behavior. Advocating that courts apply this standard to the conduct of men-and women-in legal settings where women are overwhelmingly the injured parties, the authors seek to eliminate the victimization and objectification of women by dismantling part of the legal struct

Women --- Sexual abuse victims --- Defense (Criminal procedure) --- Criminal liability --- Sex crimes --- Female sexual abuse victims --- Sexual violence victims --- Victims of sex crimes --- Victims of crimes --- Legal status, laws, etc.