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| Elizabeth Alexander |
Unshackling Shawanna: the Battle over Chaining Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery |
32 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 435 (Summer, 2010) |
On October 2, 2009, in Nelson v. Correctional Medical Services, the en banc United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a historic decision, becoming the first federal appellate court to hold that the law is clearly established that shackling a woman prisoner during labor and delivery, in the absence of a clear security...; Search Snippet: ...Convicted and Forgotten Article Unshackling Shawanna: the Battle over Chaining Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Elizabeth Alexander [Fna1] Copyright © 2010... |
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| Shirley Kohsin Wang |
Violence & Hiv/aids: Violence Against Women and Girls as a Cause and Consequence of Hiv/aids |
17 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 313 (May, 2010) |
The worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic has had and continues to have negative effects on human development. In parts of the world that have been most affected by HIV infections, such as sub-Saharan Africa, the epidemic has had the devastating effects of reducing life expectancy, reducing productivity, deepening poverty, decimating populations, increasing...; Search Snippet: ...Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Violence & Hiv/aids: Violence Against Women and Girls as a Cause and Consequence of Hiv/aids Shirley Kohsin... |
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| Carol Necole Brown |
Women and Subprime Lending: an Essay Advocating Self-regulation of the Mortgage Lending Industry |
43 Indiana Law Review 1217 (2010) |
Amidst the subprime debacle, one question is difficult to ask and answer-Why would people who could qualify for prime mortgage loans end up with subprime loans? This is a particularly relevant question because market-based theories suggest that robust competition will provide better products and yet, there is persistent evidence of steering women...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 3441925 Indiana Law Review Indiana Law Review 2010 Symposium Women and Subprime Lending: an Essay Advocating Self-regulation of The... |
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| Rafael Efrat |
Women Entrepreneurs in Bankruptcy |
45 Tulsa Law Review 527 (Spring 2010) |
Women are a significant and an emerging part of the American small business community. Some have described this development as one of the most striking trends in the U.S. labor market. Female-owned businesses generate almost a trillion dollars in revenues every year and employ more than seven million workers. Women represent one of the fastest...; Search Snippet: ...Regulation and Recession: Causes, Effects, and Solutions for Financial Crises Women Entrepreneurs in Bankruptcy Rafael Efrat [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 University... |
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| Terra L. Gearhart-Serna |
Women's Work, Women's Knowing: Intellectual Property and the Recognition of Women's Traditional Knowledge |
21 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 372 (2010) |
This Comment inserts a new question into the intellectual property academy's dialogue on traditional knowledge: Where are the women? Political scientist Cynthia Enloe insists that this is the crucial question for any feminist examination of global law and politics, and it is taken up here in order to apply a gendered lens to traditional...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2010 Comment Women's Work, Women's Knowing: Intellectual Property and the Recognition of Women's Traditional Knowledge Terra L. Gearhart-serna [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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| Shana S. Brouwers |
A Guy Walks into a Bar: Gender Discriminatory Pricing and Admission Policies in Las Vegas Establishments |
11 Nevada Law Journal 201 (Fall 2010) |
In a city whose advertising slogan winks and purrs to potential tourists worldwide that What Happens Here Stays Here, it comes as no surprise that many visitors arrive in Las Vegas expecting to indulge their forbidden desires. For a large number of these visitors, the self-gratification includes attending one or more of the famed Las Vegas...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Fall 2010 Note a Guy Walks into a Bar: Gender Discriminatory Pricing and Admission Policies in Las Vegas Establishments Shana... |
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| Emily Chaloner |
A Story of Her Own: a Feminist Critique of Copyright Law |
6 I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 221 (Summer, 2010) |
This comment explores the ways in which women are using new digital technologies to subvert dominant, male-centered mass media. This comment posits that, although women have more spaces to create due to new technologies, their works are stifled by modern copyright law because it discourages re-imaginings of already existing works. This...; Search Snippet: ...Society Summer, 2010 Articles a Story of Her Own: a Feminist Critique of Copyright Law Emily Chaloner [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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| Sacha M. Coupet |
Ain't I a Parent?: the Exclusion of Kinship Caregivers from the Debate over Expansions of Parenthood |
34 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 595 (2010) |
Kinship caregivers--a group disproportionately populated by persons of color, particularly black grandmothers--have historically assumed parental roles, often together with a legal parent. Yet even as kin have increasingly assumed substantial parental responsibilities over the past few decades, they continue to have limited opportunities to carry...; Search Snippet: ...Illusory. . the Title References Soujourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman? Speech, Which She Gave Extemporaneously at a Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman (Dec. 1851), Available at Http:// Www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html. In this Speech, Truth Challenged the Exclusion of Black women's voices, experiences and viewpoints from the women's suffrage movement. Id. Truth argued that the women's... |
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| Robert S. Chang , Adrienne D. Davis |
An Epistolary Exchange Making up Is Hard to Do: Race/gender/sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom |
33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 1 (Winter 2010) |
This exchange of letters picks up where Professors Adrienne Davis and Robert Chang left off in an earlier exchange that examined who speaks, who is allowed to speak, and what is remembered. Here, Professors Davis and Chang explore the dynamics of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the law school classroom. They compare the...; Search Snippet: ...An Epistolary Exchange Making up Is Hard to Do: Race/ Gender/sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom Robert S. Chang... |
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| Meredith Leigh Birdsall |
An Exploration of "The 'Wild West' of Reproductive Technology": Ethical and Feminist Perspectives on Sex-selection Practices in the United States |
17 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 223 (Fall, 2010) |
Although a great many voices have been raised in the debate over ethical questions in the biotechnology arena, over the issue of sex-selection practices there is a disquieting silence in the United States. How is that silence to be accounted for? With the advent of technologies capable of profoundly expanding reproductive options and changing the...; Search Snippet: ...Exploration of the Wild West of Reproductive Technology: Ethical and Feminist Perspectives on Sex-selection Practices in the United States Meredith... |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Asking the Man Question: Masculinities Analysis and Feminist Theory |
33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 415 (Summer 2010) |
Masculinities scholarship is an essential piece of feminist analysis and of critical equality analysis. It requires that we ask the man question to further unravel inequalities. A decade ago Angela Harris urged legal scholars to ask the man question by exposing the masculinities present in the brutal sodomization of Abner Louima, a Haitian...; Search Snippet: ...Summer 2010 Article Asking the Man Question: Masculinities Analysis and Feminist Theory Nancy E. Dowd [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 the President... |
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| Lindsay Pérez Huber |
Beautifully Powerful: a Latcrit Reflection on Coming to an Epistemological Consciousness and the Power of Testimonio |
18 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 839 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 840 II. Coming to the Study. 841 III. Description of the Study. 843 IV. Coming to an Epistemological Consciousness. 844 V. The Power of Testimonio. 848 VI. Conclusion. 851; Search Snippet: ...Explored the Ways Dominant Racist and Nativist Perceptions of Undocumented Latina/o Immigrants Shaped the Educational Experiences of These Women and How They Responded to These Discourses Through Their Struggle... |
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| Angela P. Harris |
Beyond the Monster Factory: Gender Violence, Race, and the Liberatory Potential of Restorative Justice |
25 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 199 (Spring 2010) |
Some years ago, Frank Zimring and Gordon Hawkins noted that American crime rates are similar to those of other industrialized nations in most categories of nonviolent crime - even lower, in some cases. Only when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace other Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. Zimring...; Search Snippet: ...Law & Justice Spring 2010 Book Review Beyond the Monster Factory: Gender Violence, Race, and the Liberatory Potential of Restorative Justice Dreams... |
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| Nicole Huberfeld |
Conditional Spending and Compulsory Maternity |
2010 University of Illinois Law Review 751 (2010) |
More than forty-six million Americans are uninsured, and many more are seeking government assistance, which makes congressional spending for federal programs a significant issue. Federal funding often comes with prerequisites in the form of statutory conditions. This Article examines the impact that conditions placed on federal healthcare spending...; Search Snippet: ...And Parents. [Fn128] as of 2004, Five Percent of White Women Were Covered by Medicaid, While Twelve Percent of Hispanic Women and Fourteen Percent of African American Women Were Medicaid Enrollees. [Fn129] Conditions Placed on Use of Medicaid... |
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| Mary Z. Silverzweig |
Domestic Terrorism: the Debate and Gender Divides |
12 Journal of Law and Family Studies 251 (2010) |
Domestic violence is an enormous problem in the United States. According to statistics: · Two to six million women experience violence from their male partners each year; · Twenty-five to thirty percent of women who seek emergency room treatment are there as a result of domestic violence; · In 2004, over 1000 women were murdered by their husbands...; Search Snippet: ...Family Studies 2010 Book Note Domestic Terrorism: the Debate and Gender Divides Mary Z. Silverzweig [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Journal Of... |
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| Kathryn Abrams |
Elusive Coalitions: Reconsidering the Politicsof Gender and Sexuality |
57 UCLA Law Review 1135 (June, 2010) |
Introduction. 1135 I. Three Conflicts in Search of a Coalition. 1136 A. Proposition 8. 1136 B. Times Square Redevelopment. 1138 C. San Francisco's Proposition K. 1139 II. Analyzing Failures of Coalition. 1141 III. Pluralism and Solidarity in the Transgender Movement. 1145; Search Snippet: ...The Field, Envisioning the Future Elusive Coalitions: Reconsidering the Politicsof Gender and Sexuality Kathryn Abrams [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Regents Of... |
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| Leah M. Provost |
Excavating from the Inside: Race, Gender, and Peremptory Challenges |
45 Valparaiso University Law Review 307 (Fall, 2010) |
Class, race, sexuality, gender-and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other-need to be excavated from the inside. The attorney begins by asking Juror Number Four, a white male, questions about his background. Do you have any legal training? No, Juror Number Four replies. Please tell me your present occupation. I...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall, 2010 Notes Excavating from the Inside: Race, Gender, and Peremptory Challenges Leah M. Provost [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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| Sarah Hinger |
Finding the Fundamental: Shaping Identity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Based Asylum Claims |
19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 367 (2010) |
Within the United States and globally, gender and sexual orientation form the basis of an increasing number of rights claims and protections. Both grounds, which reflect the expanding notions and challenges of identity-based rights, have been incorporated into United States asylum law with varying success. The extension of asylum to include some...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law 2010 Finding the Fundamental: Shaping Identity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Based Asylum Claims Sarah Hinger [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Daniel Gordon |
Gender, Race and Limiting the Constitutional Privilege of Religion as a Haven for Bias: the Bridge Back to the Twentieth Century |
31 Women's Rights Law Reporter 369 (Summer 2010) |
In 2008, a United States District Court found that a school of theology could terminate the employment of a female assistant professor because she was a female. The District Court rejected the professor's claim that under Title VII she possessed the right to be free of gender discrimination. The right to be free from gender discrimination acceded...; Search Snippet: ...Rights Law Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Summer 2010 Articles Gender, Race and Limiting the Constitutional Privilege of Religion as A... |
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| Michael Correll |
Getting Fat on Government Cheese: the Connection Between Social Welfare Participation, Gender, and Obesity in America |
18 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 45 (Fall 2010) |
The dramatic increase in obese and overweight Americans over the last two decades has produced enormous scholarly interest. New theories as to the causes, medical consequences, and legal implications of obesity abound. Despite this increase in obesity scholarship, medical, legal, and social science understandings of this topic largely remain...; Search Snippet: ...Fat on Government Cheese: the Connection Between Social Welfare Participation, Gender, and Obesity in America Michael Correll [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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| Shaun Ossei-Owusu |
Gimme Some More: Centering Gender and Inequality in Criminal Justice and Discretion Discourse |
18 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 607 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 608 II. Understanding Discretion. 612 A. Discretion as Discreetness. 612 B. Widening Our Lens. 613 III. Sites and Stages of Discretion. 614 A. Understanding Institutional Fields and Bureaucratic Patriarchy. 614 B. Police Practices and Preemptive Investigations. 616 C. Arrests. 619 D. Charging. 620 IV. Conclusion. 622; Search Snippet: ...To Help End the Status Quo Gimme Some More: Centering Gender and Inequality in Criminal Justice and Discretion Discourse Shaun Ossei... |
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| Emily C. Rutledge |
Healing Jurisprudential "Bruises": a Critique of the Failure of Due Process to Account for the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Post-castle Rock Era |
53 Howard Law Journal 421 (Winter 2010) |
Interaction of the justice system, especially police [and the courts], with communities of color is a major factor contributing to a dynamic that cannot be ignored in understanding the broad picture of domestic violence as it pertains to women of color. The United States Supreme Court in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales delivered a troubling, yet...; Search Snippet: ...Process to Account for the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Post-castle Rock Era Emily C. Rutledge [Fna1... |
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| Amy Farrell , Geoff Ward, Danielle Rousseau |
Intersections of Gender and Race in Federal Sentencing: Examining Court Contexts and the Effects of Representative Court Authorities |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 85 (Fall 2010) |
Decades of research confirm that women receive less-severe sanctions than men across all phases of the criminal justice system. In fact, leniency toward women has become an almost accepted phenomenon among scholars studying criminal case processing. Sex disparities are particularly evident in the sentencing practices of the federal courts, where...; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Conference Articles Intersections of Gender and Race in Federal Sentencing: Examining Court Contexts and The... |
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| Beverley Baines |
Is Constitutionalism Bad for Intersectional Feminists? |
28 Penn State International Law Review 427 (Winter 2010) |
Introduction. 428 Charter Constitutionalism. 431 State Action. 432 The Crime of Polygamy. 432 The Ban on Faith-based Family Arbitration. 434 The Limit on Accommodation of Cultural Differences. 435 Rights Violations. 437 Criminalizing Polygamy. 437 Banning Faith-based Family Arbitrations. 437 Limiting Accommodation of Cultural Differences. 438...; Search Snippet: ...Gentili Iii. Gender and Constitution Is Constitutionalism Bad for Intersectional Feminists? Beverley Baines [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Dickinson School of Law... |
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| Beth Caldwell |
Latinas' Experiences in Relation to Gangs: Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and the State |
2 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 19 (Spring, 2010) |
Women involved with gangs face gender bias and oppression at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels: within themselves and their families, within the gang subculture, at the community level, and through the state, as enacted by the law and its systems of enforcement. Gang-involved women face multiple experiences of victimization that occur within these...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Spring, 2010 Article Latinas' Experiences in Relation to Gangs: Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and the State Beth Caldwell [Fna1] Copyright © 2010 by Beth... |
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| Laura E. Pisarello |
Lawless by Design: Jurisdiction, Gender and Justice in Indian Country |
59 Emory Law Journal 1515 (2010) |
[O]ur method of dealing with [murder] was Crow Dog should go take care of Spotted Tail's family, and if he didn't do that we'd banish him from the tribe. But that was considered too barbaric . . . so they passed the Major Crimes Act that said we don't know how to handle murderers and they were going to show us. [I]f you want to rape or kill...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Emory Law Journal 2010 Comment Lawless by Design: Jurisdiction, Gender and Justice in Indian Country Laura E. Pisarello [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Richard Collier |
Masculinities, Law, and Personal Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law, and Gender |
33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 431 (Summer 2010) |
I. Introduction. 431 II. Contexts: The Masculinity Turn in Legal Scholarship. 434 A. Men, Masculinities, and Feminist Legal Studies. 435 III. The Critical Study of Men, Masculinities, and Law. 444 A. Background: The Pro-Feminist Study of Masculinities. 444 B. On the Man of Law: Legal Texts, Practices, Experiences, and Policy. 446 C. Law,...; Search Snippet: ...Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law, and Gender Richard Collier [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 the President and Fellows... |
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| Dean Spade, Gabriel Arkles, Phil Duran, Pooja Gehi, Huy Nguyen, Introduction Author and Interview Facilitator, Transgender Advocates |
Medicaid Policy & Gender-confirming Healthcare for Trans People: an Interview with Advocates |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 497 (Spring/Summer, 2010) |
Access to healthcare is a significant issue in the United States, especially for populations facing disproportionate poverty, medical abuse, and discriminatory denial of treatment. Trans people live at a complex crossroads-- the law defines us through medical norms by requiring medical evidence of our gender at every turn, yet many laws and...; Search Snippet: ...Spring/summer, 2010 Transgender Issues and the Law Medicaid Policy & Gender-confirming Healthcare for Trans People: an Interview with Advocates Dean... |
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| Mary Vasaly |
Men in Black: Gender Diversity and the Eighth Circuit Bench |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 1703 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 1703 II. Why is the Eighth Circuit Important?. 1705 III. Why Gender Diversity is Central to the Concept of Equal Justice for All. 1706 IV. History of Efforts to Increase Diversity in the Eighth Circuit. 1712 V. Why is it Harder to Achieve Diversity in the Federal System?. 1713 VI. What We are Doing About It. 1716 VII. Conclusion....; Search Snippet: ...Mitchell Law Review 2010 the Eighth Circuit Men in Black: Gender Diversity and the Eighth Circuit Bench Mary Vasaly [Fnd1] Copyright... |
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| Ann Varley |
Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico |
44 Law and Society Review 67 (March, 2010) |
This article examines gender and property in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the light of debates that oppose formal title to the social embeddedness of rights in customary law and assert that titling is bad for women. The article focuses on urban homes, private property, and civil law but finds that qualities regarded as characterizing customary property...; Search Snippet: ...Review Law and Society Review March, 2010 Article Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico Ann Varley [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Dionne L. Koller |
Not Just One of the Boys: a Post-feminist Critique of Title Ix's Vision for Gender Equity in Sports |
43 Connecticut Law Review 401 (December, 2010) |
Title IX as applied to athletics is a high-profile, controversial public policy effort that has opened up the world of athletics to millions of girls and women. Yet as it is both celebrated for the opportunities it has created for women, and decried as going too far at the expense of men, a reality persists that women do not pursue or remain...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Article Not Just One of the Boys: a Post- Feminist Critique of Title Ix's Vision for Gender Equity in Sports Dionne L. Koller [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011... |
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| Danielle Sollars |
Note: Gender Balance in the Judiciary: Why Does it Matter? |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 1721 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 1722 II. Background. 1723 A. The Minnesota Task Force for Gender Fairness in the Courts. 1723 B. Gender Balance on the Eighth Circuit and the Supreme Court. 1725 1. Women (Woman) and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. 1725 2. Women and the United States Supreme Court. 1728 III. Do Men and Women Decide Cases Differently?. 1729 A....; Search Snippet: ...The Courts Student Writing Competition Winner: Courtroom Environment Category Note: Gender Balance in the Judiciary: Why Does it Matter? Danielle Sollars... |
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| Kim Shayo Buchanan |
Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and the Rule of Law |
29 Yale Law and Policy Review 1 (Fall 2010) |
Introduction. 2 I. The Prison Rape Narrative. 12 II. Real Men vs. Sissies: The Heterosexual Defense. 23 A. The Legal Response to Sexual Abuse in Prison. 23 1. Underenforcement. 25 2. Be a man. Stand up and fight. . 29 3. You're gay. You must have liked it. . 32 B. Dominance and Sexuality: Making Men. 37 1. Masculinities and the Social Meaning...; Search Snippet: ...And Policy Review Fall 2010 Article Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and the Rule of Law Kim Shayo Buchanan [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Kamille Wolff |
Out of Many, One People; E Pluribus Unum: an Analysis of Self-identity in the Context of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture |
18 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 747 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 748 II. Self-Identity and Ethnicity. 750 A. Self-Identity Viewed Through the Immigrant Lens. 750 B. Self-Identity and Nationality. 752 C. Self-Identity in the Shape of Ethnic Consciousness. 756 III. Self-Identity and Culture. 764 A. Music as Cultural Expression. 764 1. Reggae and Reggaetón. 764 2. The Hip Hop Movement. 768 IV....; Search Snippet: ...Describing the Jamaican Coat of Arms as a Male and Female Flanking a Shield). See Generally Helen I. Safa, Popular Culture... |
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| Meera E. Deo , Maria Woodruff , Rican Vue , Thomas Jefferson School of Law, UCLA, UCLA |
Paint by Number? How the Race and Gender of Law School Faculty Affect the First-year Curriculum |
29 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review Rev. 1 (2010) |
While there is a relatively standard first-year curriculum at all ABA-accredited law schools in the U.S., no two classrooms are identical. This article examines how the race and gender of law school faculty affect both what is taught in the first year and how that material is taught. Using focus group data from a national, longitudinal,...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2010 Articles Paint by Number? How the Race and Gender of Law School Faculty Affect the First-year Curriculum Meera... |
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| Carissa Byrne Hessick |
Race and Gender as Explicit Sentencing Factors |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 127 (Fall 2010) |
Most modern sentencing systems in the United States express an explicit commitment to ensuring that a defendant's sentence is not affected by the defendant's race or gender. This commitment to keeping criminal sentencing free of race and gender considerations is consistent with the wider legal trend of eradicating race and gender discrimination...; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Conference Articles Race and Gender as Explicit Sentencing Factors Carissa Byrne Hessick [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| William N. Eskridge, Jr. |
Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: from Malignant to Benign to Productive |
57 UCLA Law Review 1333 (June, 2010) |
Sexuality, gender, and the law now constitutes an important field of legal inquiry and scholarship. This Article traces the evolution of the big idea in this area: Contrary to natural law assumptions, the nation is moving decisively toward the norm that sexual and gender variation are typically benign and not malignant. Today, this liberal norm...; Search Snippet: ...Gender Law: Assessing the Field, Envisioning the Future Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: from Malignant to Benign To... |
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| Bridgette Baldwin |
Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, & "Worthiness" in Poverty Discourse and Policy |
6 Modern American 4 (Spring, 2010) |
On average, we black women have bigger, better problems than any other women alive. We bear the burden of being seen as pretenders to the thrones of both femininity and masculinity, endlessly mocked by the ambiguously gendered crown-of-thorns imagery of queen Madame Queen, snap queen, welfare queen, quota queen, Queenie Queen, Queen Queen Queen....; Search Snippet: ...American Spring, 2010 Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, & Worthiness in Poverty Discourse and Policy Bridgette Baldwin [Fn1... |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
The "F" Factor: Fineman as Method and Substance |
59 Emory Law Journal 1191 (2010) |
Martha Fineman's latest volume continues her long tradition of challenging, unraveling, and moving forward the dialogue of equality and justice. In this latest volume to emerge from the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLTP), Fineman, together with her co-editors, Jack Jackson and Adam Romero, has gathered an extraordinary group of scholars who...; Search Snippet: ...The F Factor: Fineman as Method and Substance Review of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations, Edited By... |
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| Jillian T. Weiss |
The First Amendment Right to Free Exercise of Religion, Nondiscrimination Statutes Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Free Exercise Claims of Non-church-related Employers |
12 Florida Coastal Law Review 15 (Fall 2010) |
In a number of recent political issue campaigns regarding the enactment of employment protections law based on sexual orientation and gender identity, opponents of such laws have often raised concerns about the infringement on the religious freedoms of business owners. While there are often legislative exemptions for churches and other religious...; Search Snippet: ...Exercise of Religion, Nondiscrimination Statutes Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Free Exercise Claims of Non-church-related... |
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| Leeron Avnery |
The Gender Gap: a Persistent Problem That Congress Has Yet to Address |
16 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 395 (Winter, 2010) |
It is a well-known fact that women are noticeably outnumbered in the workplace when it comes to careers in math, engineering, and the sciences. This is what is known as a gender gap: a disproportionate difference or disparity between the sexes. What may not be as familiar to many is the concept of a gender gap in middle schools and high schools...; Search Snippet: ...Protecting Women's Privacy in the Most Important Places Notes the Gender Gap: a Persistent Problem That Congress Has Yet to Address... |
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| Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Hella Winston |
The Salience of Gender in the Choice of Law Careers in the Public Interest |
18 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 21 (2009-2010) |
Contrary to the popular belief that women prefer to engage in work that is in the caring sector of the workplace, most women law students, like their male counterparts, choose legal careers in commercial practice rather than in the do-good, not-for-profit sphere of the law. Indeed, women have made choices contrary to this stereotype in other...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Law & Social Policy 2009-2010 Articles the Salience of Gender in the Choice of Law Careers in the Public Interest... |
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| Leslie M. Rose |
The Supreme Court and Gender-neutral Language: Setting the Standard or Lagging Behind? |
17 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 81 (January, 2010) |
[T]he law lives through language and we must be very careful about the language we use. Law students learn the law and the language of the law from casebooks - casebooks filled with Supreme Court opinions. So, for example, when students begin Constitutional Law they will read Chief Justice John Marshall's influential 1803 opinion in Marbury v....; Search Snippet: ...Gender Law & Policy January, 2010 Articles the Supreme Court and Gender-neutral Language: Setting the Standard or Lagging Behind? Leslie M... |
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| Deborah Dinner |
The Universal Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966-1974 |
28 Law and History Review 577 (August, 2010) |
Beginning in the late 1960s, diverse strands of the modern women's movement-- liberal, radical, and African American feminists--envisioned childcare as a right. In movement tracts, organizational newsletters, and underground journals, feminists theorized women and children's rights to universal childcare, the state's obligation to provide funding...; Search Snippet: ...Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966-1974 Deborah Dinner [Fna1] Copyright © 2010 by The... |
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| Taunya Lovell Banks |
Thurgood Marshall, the Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts |
18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 15 (Fall 2010) |
Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer during the black protest movement in the 1930s. He represented civil rights protesters, albeit reluctantly, but was ambivalent about post-Brown mass protests. Although Marshall recognized law's limitations, he felt more comfortable using litigation as a tool for...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Fall 2010 Thurgood Marshall, the Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts Taunya Lovell Banks [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Mark Curriden |
Tipping the Scales |
96-JUL ABA Journal 37 (July, 2010) |
Once a year, the chief justices of the Southern state supreme courts gather to share experiences, learn from judicial educators, discuss trends that are common in the court systems of the Deep South and seek solutions. Last year, when the elite group of jurists gathered in Nashville, Tenn., they recognized that they themselves are a trend: Eight of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal July, 2010 Feature Tipping the Scales in the South, Women Have Made Huge Strides in the State Judiciaries Mark Curriden... |
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| Rhacel Salazar Parreñas |
Transnational Mothering: a Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family |
88 North Carolina Law Review 1825 (June, 2010) |
Migration destabilizes families or what we think families should look like, as it forces the transformation of households from nuclear to transnational structures, challenges the traditional gender division of labor, and imposes the barrier of geographical distance on marital and intergenerational relations. Looking at the case of migration from...; Search Snippet: ...3: Families and Global Migration Transnational Mothering: a Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family [Fna1] Rhacel Salazar Parreñas [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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| Heather Joy Baker |
We Don't Want to Scare the Ladies: an Investigation of Maternal Rights and Informed Consent Throughout the Birth Process |
31 Women's Rights Law Reporter 538 (Summer 2010) |
The protection of reproductive rights. . . is not a matter of some vague or generalized notion of privacy but of a woman's autonomy to decide for herself her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2007) Although stigmatized by its frequent employment in the abortion debate, a woman's right to...; Search Snippet: ...How a Broken Maternity System must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First 56 (2006). At a Meeting in Texas... |
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| Angela Irvine, Ph.D. |
We've Had Three of Them: Addressing the Invisibility of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Gender Non-conforming Youths in the Juvenile Justice System |
19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 675 (2010) |
Two researchers were speaking to a high-ranking probation officer from a large city, trying to convince her to participate in a project on lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning (LGB), and gender non-conforming youths. Her first response was, I've worked in this system for twenty-five years and in all of that time I think we've had three of...; Search Snippet: ...Of Them: Addressing the Invisibility of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Gender Non-conforming Youths in the Juvenile Justice System Angela Irvine... |
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| Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Sandra Cheldelin, Deborah Kolb |
What Travels: Teaching Gender in Cross Cultural Negotiation Classrooms |
31 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 531 (Spring 2010) |
I am not hindered by my gender; I use it to my advantage--being cute, young and naïve--to get better deals for my clients. (Israeli lawyer) The likeability-competence stereotype doesn't fit the Turkish experience-- the choice of competence is not one women can even consider--all leadership positions are held by men. (Turkish psychologist) How do we...; Search Snippet: ...Policy Spring 2010 Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Project What Travels: Teaching Gender in Cross Cultural Negotiation Classrooms Andrea Kupfer Schneider Sandra Cheldelin... |
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