Abstract
Imagine a state where the governor opens his home as a shelter for battered women, feminists hold appointed positions and respond to leftwing and feminist constituencies, the First Lady spends time talking with women in prison, and the Corrections Department allows inmates to speak with journalists. Imagine the governor grants mass clemency to 26 women incarcerated for killing abusive partners. Is this a fantasy from a feminist utopian novel? No, this was Ohio in the late 1980s, during the term of Richard Celeste. Patricia Gagne was inspired by these anomalous progressive gestures to chronicle and mine the Ohio battered women's clemency movement for strategies of social movement success. 468 Social Control and the Law
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