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| Guadalupe T. Luna |
Women in Blue Jeans: Connecting the past with Agricultural Transformations in the Present |
23 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 313 (Fall 2008) |
A lot of us are getting into farming later, as we get older . . .. We're willing to toss insanity to the winds. It's just a different focus for women. The systemic and ongoing demise of independent farm operations is well documented and lamented. The confluence of globalization and rising production costs in the present are further jeopardizing...; Search Snippet: ...Society Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Fall 2008 Articles Women in Blue Jeans: Connecting the past with Agricultural Transformations In... |
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| Kim White |
Women in Federal Prison: Pathways In, Programs out |
14 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 305 (Winter, 2008) |
One of the fastest growing populations in most correctional systems is female offenders and the impact of these rising numbers is significant. The author speaks to the rising female population numbers, the types of crimes and behaviors that lead to their incarceration, the characteristics of female offenders, the impact their incarceration has on...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Winter, 2008 2007 Symposium: Women in Prisons Article Women in Federal Prison: Pathways In, Programs out Kim White [Fna1... |
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| Jenni Gainsborough |
Women in Prison: International Problems and Human Rights Based Approaches to Reform |
14 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 271 (Winter, 2008) |
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, many countries are seeing a disproportionate rate of increase among women. Despite differences in culture and resources, women everywhere face similar problems in prison systems, which have been designed primarily by and for men. These include sexual...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Winter, 2008 2007 Symposium: Women in Prisons Article Women in Prison: International Problems and Human Rights Based Approaches To... |
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| Fiona Kay , Elizabeth Gorman |
Women in the Legal Profession |
4 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 299 (2008) |
gender, law practice, careers, mobility, earnings, discrimination In recent years, the legal profession has undergone significant change, with rapidly rising numbers of women among its membership. Scholars of legal history, sociology, economics, organizational behavior, and law have examined various dimensions of the feminization of the legal...; Search Snippet: ...Social Science Annual Review of Law and Social Science 2008 Women in the Legal Profession Fiona Kay [Fn1] Elizabeth Gorman [Fn2... |
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| Elizabeth Loeb |
As "Every Schoolboy Knows": Gender, Land, and Native Title in the United States |
32 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 253 (2008) |
This article begins with an obvious but necessary premise: the U.S. state has historically produced itself as sovereign over a specific territorial mass through the violent conquest and continuing occupation of lands to which Native Americans also lay and have laid sovereign claim. At its core, this article seeks to ask how a Liberal conception of...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Social Change 2008 Article as Every Schoolboy Knows: Gender, Land, and Native Title in the United States Elizabeth Loeb... |
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| Megan Ryan |
Comments from the Spring 2007 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Conference |
31 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 378 (Summer 2008) |
Even after thirty-five years in existence, Title IX is still widely misunderstood. We hope this Conference sheds some light on how Title IX is actually implemented in practice and how it has had an impact on people's lives. Inspired by Deborah Brake's article, Revisiting Title IX's Feminist Legacy, we decided to focus on a larger theme for this...; Search Snippet: ...Articles Comments from the Spring 2007 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Conference Held at Harvard Law School Edited and Abridged By... |
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| Dean Spade |
Documenting Gender |
59 Hastings Law Journal 731 (March, 2008) |
We are witnessing a period of great controversy and law reform about issues of identity documentation and identity verification. In the last few years, both the passage of the Real ID Act and the implementation of new data comparison practices between administrative agencies such as departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and the Social Security...; Search Snippet: ...Hastings Law Journal Hastings Law Journal March, 2008 Articles Documenting Gender Dean Spade [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008 Uc Hastings College Of... |
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| Rosalind Dixon |
Feminist Disagreement (Comparatively) Recast |
31 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 277 (Summer 2008) |
Critical issues of gender justice are frequently analyzed in the American legal academy without meaningful attention to the insights of newer feminist theories. To some degree this is understandable, as newer feminisms have added substantially to the overall complexity of feminist scholarship and have employed a less accessible argumentative style...; Search Snippet: ...Gender Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Summer 2008 Main Articles Feminist Disagreement (Comparatively) Recast Rosalind Dixon [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008 By... |
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| Julie Goldscheid |
Gender Violence and Work: Reckoning with the Boundaries of Sex Discrimination Law |
18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 61 (2008) |
It is uncontroverted . that Hossack was terminated because management feared her husband's threats and that he might very well cause workplace disruption in the future . [consequently] no reasonable jury could find that the defendant terminated [her] employment because she is a woman. Workplace inequality based on sex, as well as discrimination...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2008 Gender Violence and Work: Reckoning with the Boundaries of Sex Discrimination... |
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| Rhonda Copelon |
Gender Violence as Torture: the Contribution of Cat General Comment No. 2 |
11 New York City Law Review 229 (Summer 2008) |
Violence against women persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality. Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict. The...; Search Snippet: ...And Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Remarks Gender Violence as Torture: the Contribution of Cat General Comment No... |
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| Lisa R. Pruitt 2008 |
Gender, Geography & Rural Justice |
23 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 338 (Fall 2008) |
This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus deploys the tools of critical geographers--space, place,...; Search Snippet: ...Justice Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice Fall 2008 Article Gender, Geography & Rural Justice Lisa R. Pruitt 2008 [Fnd1] Copyright ©... |
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| Christiana Ochoa |
Guatemala's Gender Equality Reforms: Cil in the Making |
83 Indiana Law Journal 1333 (Fall, 2008) |
Attaining legitimacy and maintaining integral coherence are among the persistent goals of international law. My previous work on customary international law (CIL) has attended to these goals, specifically in relation to proscription. I have argued, together with others, that individuals should have a recognized role in the CIL formation process....; Search Snippet: ...Epicenter of Contemporary Legal Discourses Gender and Human Rights Guatemala's Gender Equality Reforms: Cil in the Making Christiana Ochoa [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Taunya Lovell Banks |
Here Comes the Judge! Gender Distortion on Tv Reality Court Shows |
39 University of Baltimore Law Forum 38 (Fall 2008) |
[W]e are seeing a shift from . . . the failed representation of the real . . . to . . . the impenetrable commingling of fiction and reality . . . representations no longer need to be rooted in reality. It is sufficient for images simply to reflect other images. Law has become . . . entertainment law. In 2000, television reality court shows replaced...; Search Snippet: ...Baltimore Law Forum Fall 2008 Article Here Comes the Judge! Gender Distortion on Tv Reality Court Shows Taunya Lovell Banks [Fna1... |
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| K.J. Greene |
Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues |
16 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 365 (2008) |
I. The Emergence of Race in Legal Analysis. 367 A. Intellectual Property, Innovation and African-Americans. 368 B. Blacks and Copyright Law. 370 C. Blacks and Trademark Law. 374 II. The Emerging Feminist Critique of Intellecual Property. 378 A. African-American Women and IP. 380 III. Traditional Knowledge/Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual...; Search Snippet: ...2008 Article Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues K.j. Greene [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008... |
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| Phyliss Craig-Taylor |
Lifting the Veil: the Intersectionality of Ethics, Culture, and Gender Bias in Domestic Violence Cases |
32 Rutgers Law Record 31 (Spring, 2008) |
This article will explore both theoretical and pragmatic questions which arise out of deconstructing the term objective and competent representation inside the paradigm of zealous representation, when viewed through the lens of domestic violence cases. These cases invoke highly problematic issues when examined in a homogeneous, rather than a...; Search Snippet: ...2008 Lifting the Veil: the Intersectionality of Ethics, Culture, and Gender Bias in Domestic Violence Cases Phyliss Craig-taylor [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Rose Ernst |
Localizing the "Welfare Queen" Ten Years Later: Race, Gender, Place, and Welfare Rights |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 181 (Winter 2008) |
Mysheda Autry sits on a linoleum floor, watching her three children play with toys from a nearby milk crate. She is pregnant. This photo, featured in The New York Times, marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The caption beneath the photo reads, Today is the 10th anniversary of the law intended to wean poor women off welfare. But Mysheda...; Search Snippet: ...Contemporary America Localizing the Welfare Queen Ten Years Later: Race, Gender, Place, and Welfare Rights Rose Ernst [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008... |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory |
23 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 201 (Fall 2008) |
Feminist theory has examined men, patriarchy, and masculine characteristics predominantly as sources of power, domination, inequality, and subordination. Various theories of inequality developed by feminists challenge and reveal structures and discourses that reinforce explicitly or implicitly the centrality of men and the male identity of a...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law, Gender & Society Fall 2008 Articles Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory [Fna1] Nancy E. Dowd [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 2008... |
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| Lorna Fox |
Re-possessing "Home": a Re-analysis of Gender, Homeownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory |
14 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 423 (Spring, 2008) |
The current credit crisis has brought the subject of subprime and other problematic debt to the forefront of many agendas - both political and personal. This article explores some of the underlying legal, theoretical, economic, and phenomenological issues associated with default and foreclosure, particularly as they affect women homeowners. The...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2008 Articles Re-possessing Home: a Re-analysis of Gender, Homeownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory Lorna Fox [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008 College Of... |
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Striving for Diversity in Adr & Why it Matters: an Interview with the Hon. Timothy K. Lewis |
63-APR Dispute Resolution Journal 20 (February-April, 2008) |
Judge Lewis: My name is Tim Lewis. I am a former U.S. Circuit Court judge and a former United States District Court judge. I served eight years on the Third Circuit. Before that, I was a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. I am a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. I still live in Pittsburgh, but I now practice in the...; Search Snippet: ...In the Decision Making Professions, and Why Allowing Minorities and Women an Opportunity to Participate Is So Vitally Important Copyright © 2008... |
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| Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol |
The Gender Bend: Culture, Sex, and Sexuality-a Latcritical Human Rights Map of Latina/o Border Crossings |
83 Indiana Law Journal 1283 (Fall, 2008) |
[C]ultures provide specific plots for lives. Away, she went away but each place she went pushed her to the other side, al otro lado. [j]Mejor puta que pata. Mejor ladrón que maricón. In the course of studying and theorizing about Latinas/os and their location in law and culture, critical theory has been simultaneously liberating and restraining,...; Search Snippet: ...Epicenter of Contemporary Legal Discourses Gender and Human Rights the Gender Bend: Culture, Sex, and Sexuality-a Latcritical Human Rights Map of Latina/o Border Crossings Berta Esperanza Hernandez-truyol [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Lorraine H. Weber |
The History of Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Initiatives in Michigan-where We Have Been, Where We Hope to Go, and Why it Is Important |
25 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 139 (2008) |
Good afternoon, I am both proud and a little amazed at the opportunity that I had early on in Michigan to be a part of this movement, and, as you might have gleaned from my introduction, I regret to say that I am indeed old enough to have been there pretty much from the beginning. As I look around this room, I see the faces of some who were there...; Search Snippet: ...To Equality: Are We There Yet? Transcript the History of Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Initiatives in Michigan-where We Have Been... |
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| Dana Neaçsu |
The Red Booklet on Feminist Equality. Instead of a Manifesto. |
30 Women's Rights Law Reporter 106 (Fall 2008) |
If feminist legal theory were to face its legacy today, it would see that its tremendous value rests in its means more than in its ends. True, it has produced palpable results for its promoters domestically. It satisfied many feminists' discrete incremental requests, from Women's History Month to a limited right to bear or beget. While feminism...; Search Snippet: ...Rights Law Reporter Fall 2008 Articles the Red Booklet on Feminist Equality. Instead of a Manifesto. Dana Neaçsu [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Anders Walker |
Things Cannot Go on as They Are: Contextualizing Herbert Wechsler's Critique of the School Segregation Cases |
52 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1211 (Summer 2008) |
This morning, constitutional scholar David Strauss asked us to reconsider Herbert Wechsler's 1959 critique of Brown v. Board of Education in Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law. Read outside its historical context, Wechsler's charge that Brown failed to establish a neutral legal principle for invalidating segregation, and that...; Search Snippet: ...A White Central High Student, Assaulted Another One of the African American Girls at the School, Prompting Holloway's Suspension. [Fn20] over the Course... |
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| Barbara Ann White |
Traversing 2 and 3 Waves: Feminist Legal Theory Moving Forward |
39 University of Baltimore Law Forum L.F. I (Fall, 2008) |
The difference between 2 and 3 wave is experiential -- not chronological -- Gloria Steinem As a 3 wave feminist asking you, a 2 wave feminist . where should we go from here? . what do you want us to accomplish? Query to Steinem by young woman during Q & A. I just want you to go . It's up to you [what you want to accomplish .] -- Ms. Steinem's...; Search Snippet: ...Law Forum Fall, 2008 Foreword Traversing 2 Nd and 3 Rd Waves: Feminist Legal Theory Moving Forward Barbara Ann White [Fna1] Copyright © 2008... |
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| X. Brian Edwards |
True Donative Freedom: Using Mediation to Resolve the Disparate Impact Current Succession Law Has on Committed Same-gender Loving Couples |
23 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 715 (2008) |
In recent years the national discussion concerning what rights same-gender loving Americans do or do not have has been thrust to the forefront of American political debate. The issues of same-sex marriage, same-gender loving adoption rights, and civil unions have sparked heated debate between both ends of the political spectrum. Moreover, this...; Search Snippet: ...The Disparate Impact Current Succession Law Has on Committed Same- Gender Loving Couples [Fn1] X. Brian Edwards [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2008... |
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| Adrien Katherine Wing |
Twenty-first-century Loving: Nationality, Gender, and Religion in the Muslim World |
76 Fordham Law Review 2895 (May, 2008) |
It scarcely seems possible that the Loving v. Virginia decision is now forty years old. In that case, decided more than ten years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, Virginia was one of many states that forbade intermarriage between whites and blacks. It took the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a racist law...; Search Snippet: ...On Race, Sex, and Family Twenty-first-century Loving: Nationality, Gender, and Religion in the Muslim World Adrien Katherine Wing [Fna1... |
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| Barbara L. Bernier |
Unholy Troika: Gender, Race and Religiosity in the 2008 Presidential Contest |
15 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 275 (August, 2008) |
B.C. Thy Husband Shall Rule Over Thee [Genesis, Old Testament] A.D. Let wives be subject to their husbands as to the Lord; because a husband is head of the wife just as Christ is head of the Church. . .just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to their husbands in all things. [St. Paul, Epistle to the Ephesians 5, New...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender Law & Policy August, 2008 Article Unholy Troika: Gender, Race and Religiosity in the 2008 Presidential Contest Barbara L... |
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| Sunny Woan |
White Sexual Imperialism: a Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence |
14 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 275 (Spring, 2008) |
This Article studies the intersection of race and gender, examining it through the lens of Western imperialism. Even though both critical race and feminist scholarship have addressed this intersection, few if any offer a precise theory for understanding the imperialized experience. This Article seeks to fill that void. The social inequality...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2008 Article White Sexual Imperialism: a Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence Sunny Woan [Fna1] Copyright © 2008 by Washington and Lee... |
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Whose Revolution Is This? Gender's Divisive Role in the Black Panther Party |
9 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 403 (2008) |
I. Calling All Men: Background and Context of Gender's Role Early On. 404 A. Early Recruitment. 408 B. Women Gain Interest. 410 C. Women Join the Party. 412 II. The Federal, State, and Local Attack on The Black Panther Party. 413 III. Gender's Divide. 416 A. The Visibility of Panther Women: Gender Discussed on the Front Pages. 416 B. Gender as an...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender and Sexuality Law Note Whose Revolution Is This? Gender's Divisive Role in the Black Panther Party Samuel Josephs [Fna1... |
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| Laura M. Padilla |
A Gendered Update on Women Law Deans: Who, Where, Why, and Why Not? |
15 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 443 (2007) |
Introduction. 444 I. What Does a Law Dean Do, and How Do You Become One Anyway?. 447 A. A Job Description for Law Deans. 448 B. The Path to a Law Deanship. 454 II. Empirical Information. 460 A. Who Are Uur Law Deans, and What Are Their Demographics?. 460 B. A Twenty Year Overview of Women Law Deans, Focusing on 1984-1985, 1994-1995, and 2004-2005....; Search Snippet: ...Policy and the Law 2007 Articles a Gendered Update on Women Law Deans: Who, Where, Why, and Why Not? Laura M... |
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A Symposium with Women Chiefs |
13 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 305 (Spring 2007) |
MS. BONNIE STEINGART: This is a very special event for Cardozo Women and Cardozo Law School. We have with us today Chief Justices from four of our highest state courts. We have Judge Judith Kaye, who is Chief in New York; we have Justice Deborah Poritz, who is Chief in New Jersey; we have Justice Jean Toal, who is Chief in South Carolina, and...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Gender Spring 2007 Transcript a Symposium with Women Chiefs April 7, 2006 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School... |
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| Margaret E. Johnson |
Avoiding Harm Otherwise: Reframing Women Employees' Responses to the Harms of Sexual Harassment |
80 Temple Law Review 743 (Fall 2007) |
This Article concerns the concepts of employee harm and harm avoidance within the liability framework for hostile work environment sexual harassment by a supervisor. Whether an employer is liable for supervisor sexual harassment depends in part on whether the employee avoids her harm or mitigates her damages resulting from the sexual harassment....; Search Snippet: ...Temple Law Review Fall 2007 Article Avoiding Harm Otherwise: Reframing Women Employees' Responses to the Harms of Sexual Harassment Margaret E... |
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| Kathleen A. Ward |
Before and after the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power |
6 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 245 (Spring/Summer, 2007) |
Native America has been, and in many ways still is, more diverse than the entire continent of Europe. While all Indian tribes have an underlying consciousness and world view, each tribe has its own language, religion, customs, governance structure, judicial system, and history. Thus, when writing an article about the Native American experience, it...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2007 Articles Before and after the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power Kathleen A. Ward [Fnd1] Copyright ©... |
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| Parag Khandhar |
Building a New Paradigm for the Women's Movement: Spotlight on Kiran Ahuja |
3 Modern American 25 (Summer-Fall, 2007) |
Only in her mid-thirties, Ms. Kiran Ahuja, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), has had a long, distinguished public interest career as an attorney, an advocate for immigrant communities, and a mentor and advisor to countless law students and young activists. I caught up with her for a little while to...; Search Snippet: ...American Summer-fall, 2007 Building a New Paradigm for the Women's Movement: Spotlight on Kiran Ahuja [Fna1] Parag Khandhar [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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| Kate Hannaher |
Caring for Invisible Patients: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare for Incarcerated Women |
29 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 161 (Fall 2007) |
Women jail and prison inmates arguably form the highest-risk population in American public health. . . . These are women for whom the mainstream health system has failed or been inadequate, both from the standpoints of prevention and treatment. . . . The prison environment is a unique opportunity to provide healthy lifestyle information for...; Search Snippet: ...For Invisible Patients: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare for Incarcerated Women Kate Hannaher [Fn1] Copyright (C) 2007 Hamline Journal of Public... |
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| Ellen M. Weber |
Child Welfare Interventions for Drug-dependent Pregnant Women: Limitations of a Non-public Health Response |
75 UMKC Law Review 789 (Spring, 2007) |
National drug policy, medical practice and the child welfare system have not kept pace with scientific research that points to effective health interventions to address alcoholism and drug dependence among pregnant women. In its 2003 amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Congress adopted a policy requiring physicians to report...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2007 Article Child Welfare Interventions for Drug-dependent Pregnant Women: Limitations of a Non-public Health Response Ellen M. Weber... |
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| Margaret Moore Jackson |
Confronting "Unwelcomeness" from the Outside: Using Case Theory to Tell the Stories of Sexually-harassed Women |
14 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 61 (Fall 2007) |
The recognition of sexual harassment as employment discrimination was a striking departure from the status quo. Feminists propelled this development in the law to create change in the workplace and corresponding progress in societal attitudes. However, acceptance of sexual harassment prohibitions has been slow. Thirty years after the claim was...; Search Snippet: ...Using Case Theory to Tell the Stories of Sexually-harassed Women Margaret Moore Jackson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2007 Yeshiva University; Margaret... |
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| Doug Jones |
Domestic Violence Against Women with Disabilities: a Feminist Legal Theory Analysis |
2 Florida A & M University Law Review 207 (Fall 2007) |
I. Introduction. 207 II. Domestic Violence Legal Scholarship has Overlooked Women with Disabilities. 212 III. Unique myths, unique experiences, and unique Barriers. 215 IV. Proposals and Theory. 218 A. Domestic Violence Service Infrastructure Reforms. 218 B. Education and Non-Legal Advocacy. 223 C. Courtroom Accommodations. 227 D. Allowing Women...; Search Snippet: ...M University Law Review Fall 2007 Comment Domestic Violence Against Women with Disabilities: a Feminist Legal Theory Analysis Doug Jones [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2007 Florida... |
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| Adina S. Greiner |
Elementary and Secondary Education: Amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Relating to Student Health in Elementary and Secondary Education, So as to Require Immunization Against the Human Papillomav |
24 Georgia State University Law Review 143 (Fall, 2007) |
Code Section: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-771(c) (amended) Bill Number: SB 155 Summary: The bill would have required all female students entering sixth grade to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus. Exceptions were provided for children whose parents objected on religious grounds. The bill would have also suspended the vaccination requirement in...; Search Snippet: ...So as to Require Immunization Against the Human Papillomavirus for Female Students Entering the Sixth Grade; Provide for a Beginning Date... |
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| Kara Beth Stein |
Female Refugees: Re-victimized by the Material Support to Terrorism Bar |
38 McGeorge Law Review 815 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 816 II. Refugee Provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 818 A. Defining Terms: Refugees and Asylum Seekers. 818 B. Historic Development of Refugee Law. 819 C. The Refugee Act of 1980. 820 D. Terrorism Provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 821 1. Congressional Intent: Excluding Those Who Seek to Harm the...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 2899726 Mcgeorge Law Review Mcgeorge Law Review 2007 Comment Female Refugees: Re-victimized by the Material Support to Terrorism Bar... |
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| Rachelle Cassman |
Fighting to Make the Cut: Female Genital Cutting Studied Within the Context of Cultural Relativism |
6 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 128 (Fall, 2007) |
This comment is focused on a discussion of female genital cutting (FGC) within the context of cultural relativism. Regardless of how FGC conflicts with American sensibilities, international movement toward an elimination of its existence is unlikely without thorough regard and understanding for the cultural, religious, and ethnic rationales that...; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 2007 Note and Comment Fighting to Make the Cut: Female Genital Cutting Studied Within the Context of Cultural Relativism Rachelle... |
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| Nekima Levy-Pounds |
From the Frying Pan into the Fire: How Poor Women of Color and Children Are Affected by Sentencing Guidelines and Mandatory Minimums |
47 Santa Clara Law Review 285 (2007) |
Through a string of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has drawn attention to the adverse consequences that flow from the enforcement of harsh federal sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums used to punish drug offenders. In United States v. Booker, the Court drastically altered the strictures of these guidelines by pronouncing them to...; Search Snippet: ...Article from the Frying Pan into the Fire: How Poor Women of Color and Children Are Affected by Sentencing Guidelines And... |
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| Dana J. Hubbard, Cleveland State University |
Getting the Most out of Correctional Treatment: Testing the Responsivity Principle on Male and Female Offenders |
71-JUN Federal Probation 2 (June, 2007) |
IT IS NO SURPRISE that the number of offenders under correctional supervision has been steadily increasing. In fact, this number has increased more than 188 percent since 1973 (Clear, 1994). Moreover, it is likely that on most days, more than 1.8 million Americans are behind bars (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998). Women and girls have not been...; Search Snippet: ...Of Correctional Treatment: Testing the Responsivity Principle on Male and Female Offenders Dana J. Hubbard Cleveland State University Copyright © 2007 By... |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Girl, Fight! |
22 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 254 (2007) |
I want to reclaim the idea of fighting like a girl--a phrase that is usually meant to suggest that those who fight like girls, as opposed to fighting like men, don't really know how to fight and that their struggle is not real, not intense, not legitimate. . . . I don't agree with that characterization at all. I know how to fight, and I know plenty...; Search Snippet: ...Justice Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 2007 Book Review Girl, Fight! Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist by Megan Seely. New York and London: New York University... |
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| Ann Carey Juliano |
Harassing Women with Power: the Case for Including Contra-power Harassment Within Title Vii |
87 Boston University Law Review 491 (June, 2007) |
Introduction. 492 I. The Social Science of Contra-Power Harassment. 497 A. The Prevalence of Contra-Power Harassment. 498 B. Behaviors. 500 C. Responses to Contra-Power Harassment. 501 II. Background of Contra-Power. 503 A. Models of Power. 503 B. Conceptions of Harassment as Discrimination. 506 1. Bernstein's Respectful Person Standard. 508 2....; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Boston University Law Review June, 2007 Article Harassing Women with Power: the Case for Including Contra-power Harassment Within... |
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| LeeAnn O'Neill |
Hitting the Legal Diversity Market Home: Minority Women Strike out |
3 Modern American Am. 7 (Spring, 2007) |
In the 1990s, in-house corporate counsel began demanding greater diversity in their outside law firms, culminating in the 1999 Morgan Letter, a diversity manifesto signed by more than 500 corporate general counsels to consider diversity when hiring outside counsel. General counsel at corporations began assessing whether women and minority lawyers...; Search Snippet: ...American Spring, 2007 Hitting the Legal Diversity Market Home: Minority Women Strike out Leeann O'neill [Fna1] Copyright © 2007 by the Modern... |
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| Kim Shayo Buchanan |
Impunity: Sexual Abuse in Women's Prisons |
42 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 45 (Winter 2007) |
In the United States, sexual abuse by guards in women's prisons is so notorious and widespread that it has been described as an institutionalized component of punishment behind prison walls. Women in prisons across the United States are subjected to diverse and systematic forms of sexual abuse: vaginal and anal rape; forced oral sex and forced...; Search Snippet: ...Liberties Law Review Winter 2007 Article Impunity: Sexual Abuse in Women's Prisons Kim Shayo Buchanan [Fna1] Copyright © 2007 by the President... |
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| Kim Shayo Buchanan |
Lawrence V. Geduldig: Regulating Women's Sexuality |
56 Emory Law Journal 1235 (2007) |
Introduction. 1236 I. Sexual Regulation: Coercing Women, Liberating Men. 1239 A. The Laws of Paternity: Boys Will Be Boys. 1241 B. Masturbation: Obscenity, Prurience, and Normal, Healthy Sex. 1246 C. Regulation of Women's Sexuality: Punishing Sex. 1254 II. Equal Sexual Liberty. 1270 A. Due Process Liberty in Lawrence: Promise and Disappointment....; Search Snippet: ...Journal Emory Law Journal 2007 Article Lawrence V. Geduldig: Regulating Women's Sexuality Kim Shayo Buchanan [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2007 Emory Law... |
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| Mark J. Calaguas , Cristina M. Drost , Edward R. Fluet |
Legal Pluralism and Women's Rights: a Study in Postcolonial Tanzania |
16 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 471 (2007) |
Shindano is a sixty-year-old woman who lives on the island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania. She has been residing in the small village of Mkokotoni, where she has had to survive without support from her husband Abu for the last five months. After five years of marriage, Abu ordered Shindano out of his home, telling her to leave...; Search Snippet: ...Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2007 Legal Pluralism and Women's Rights: a Study in Postcolonial Tanzania Mark J. Calaguas [Fna1... |
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| Pippa Holloway, Middle Tennessee State University |
Lorraine Gates Schuyler. The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Xiii, 336 Pp. $59.95 (Cloth); $22.50 (Paper) |
49 American Journal of Legal History 471 (October, 2007) |
This book argues that in the decade after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, southern women's electoral engagement altered the political landscape in the South. This thesis challenges two long-standing interpretations of women's suffrage: that gaining the vote had a minimal impact on American politics, and that reform movements and voluntary...; Search Snippet: ...Review Lorraine Gates Schuyler. The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. Chapel Hill: University Of... |
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