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| B.J. Chisholm |
Credible Definitions: a Critique of U.s. Asylum Law's Treatment of Gender-related Claims |
44 Howard Law Journal 427 (Spring 2001) |
Don't conspire with oblivion, tear down the silence. I want to be the appeared woman from among the labyrinths come back, return name myself. Call my name. - Marjorie Agosin A woman leaves her country, realizing that she may never return. She is in exile in a new country; she was in exile within her own country. Arriving in the United States, this...; Search Snippet: ...Credible Definitions: a Critique of U.s. Asylum Law's Treatment of Gender-related Claims B.j. Chisholm [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Howard University... |
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| Donna Coker |
Crime Control and Feminist Law Reform in Domestic Violence Law: a Critical Review |
4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 801 (2001) |
The controversy about nation-wide implementation of mandatory arrest policies reflects the ambivalence with which feminists regard the police. On one hand, battered women's advocates want to hold the police accountable, as agents of the state, for carrying out the government's mandate to protect citizens. On the other hand, feminists realize that...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2001 Feminism and the Criminal Law Crime Control and Feminist Law Reform in Domestic Violence Law: a Critical Review Donna... |
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| Linda L. Ammons |
Dealing with the Nastiness: Mixing Feminism and Criminal Law in the Review of Cases of Battered Incarcerated Women--a Tenth-year Reflection |
4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 891 (2001) |
It would be revolting to all female sense of the innocence and sanctity of their sex, shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in woman . . . [T]hat woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all the nastiness of the world which finds its way into the courts of justice; all the unclean issues, all the collateral questions of...; Search Snippet: ...Criminal Law in the Review of Cases of Battered Incarcerated Women--a Tenth-year Reflection Linda L. Ammons [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Marty Beyer, Ph.D. |
Delinquent Girls: a Developmental Perspective |
9-SPG Kentucky Children's Rights Journal 17 (Spring, 2001) |
While there are similarities in the gradual, uneven progression of males and females through adolescence, girls develop differently than boys. Research has identified different vulnerabilities and protective factors in girls. Girls tend to internalize, with a higher rate of depression, anxiety, withdrawal and eating disorders. Problems in school...; Search Snippet: ...Childrens Rights Journal Kentucky Children's Rights Journal Spring, 2001 Delinquent Girls: a Developmental Perspective Marty Beyer , Ph.d. [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001... |
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| Katharine K. Baker |
Dialectics and Domestic Abuse |
110 Yale Law Journal 1459 (June, 2001) |
In Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking, Elizabeth Schneider examines the legal treatment of battered women. It is a book rich in history, ideology, and challenge, which takes as its major goal the exploration of the relationship between the theory of feminist lawmaking and the practice of representing battered women. Schneider sees this...; Search Snippet: ...Journal June, 2001 Book Review Dialectics and Domestic Abuse Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking. By Elizabeth M. Schneider. [Fna1] New Haven: Yale University... |
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| Elizabeth A. Hueben |
Domestic Violence and Asylum Law: the United States Takes Several Remedial Steps in Recognizing Gender-based Persecution |
70 UMKC Law Review 453 (Winter, 2001) |
Millions of people annually seek shelter in another country due to persecution in their home countries. Among these are women who suffer brutal abuse at the hands of their husbands. If those women try to find refuge in the United States, they most often are turned away, their claims falling through the cracks in United States asylum law. Recent...; Search Snippet: ...Law: the United States Takes Several Remedial Steps in Recognizing Gender-based Persecution Elizabeth A. Hueben [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Curators... |
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| Anita Sinha |
Domestic Violence and U.s. Asylum Law: Eliminating the "Cultural Hook" for Claims Involving Gender-related Persecution |
76 New York University Law Review 1562 (November, 2001) |
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecution. Analyzing the three most recent decisions published by the Board of Immigration Appeals, Sinha illustrates that these cases have turned on whether the gender-related violence can be linked to practices attributable to non-Western, foreign...; Search Snippet: ...U.s. Asylum Law: Eliminating the Cultural Hook for Claims Involving Gender-related Persecution Anita Sinha [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 New York... |
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| Richard R. Holley III |
Dueling Dollars: the Story of Sacagawea's Journey |
5 North Carolina Banking Institute 579 (April, 2001) |
Canada and the United Kingdom had the sense to withdraw the counterpart banknote from circulation when they released their dollar coins. Indeed, all major Western economies now use a coin for transactions at, or often above, the level at which the U.S. uses a $1 note. Unfortunately, America has resisted similar change. Rather, the schizophrenic...; Search Snippet: ...Their Preferences. [Fn44] in the End, Sacagawea, [Fn45] the Young Native American Woman Who Guided Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Across the Northern... |
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| Suzanne J. Groisser |
Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) |
10 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 385 (2001) |
Domestic violence is a problem of epidemic proportions plaguing our society. Nearly 1.9 million women are battered each year in the United States and approximately sixty percent of all women murdered are killed by a present or former intimate partner. While there have been important advances in legal remedies for battered women over the past twenty...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 2001 Tenth Anniversary Volume Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) Suzanne J. Groisser... |
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| Susan L. Thomas |
'Ending Welfare as We Know It,' or Farewell to the Rights of Women on Welfare? A Constitutional and Human Rights Analysis of the Personal Responsibility Act |
78 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 179 (Winter 2001) |
To be poor in the United States in the early years of the new century places a woman in an extraordinarily difficult position. Her options for managing this crisis are few. She has to depend on her own emotional strengths and on her severely limited financial resources. Public assistance programs provide little help and penalize women who are not...; Search Snippet: ...As We Know It, or Farewell to the Rights of Women on Welfare? A Constitutional and Human Rights Analysis of The... |
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| Carlos A. Ball |
Essentialism and Universalism in Gay Rights Philosophy: Liberalism Meets Queer Theory |
26 Law and Social Inquiry 271 (Winter, 2001) |
The grand philosophical battle between postmodernists and liberals is reflected in disputes within gay rights philosophy. On one side are postmodernist queer theorists who, in addressing the meaning and implications of sexuality in our society, reject foundational values and deny that there is a natural or essentialist component to sexual...; Search Snippet: ...J. Richards. Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999. Pp. 234... |
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| Antoinette Sedillo Lopez |
Ethnocentrism and Feminism: Using a Contextual Methodology in International Women's Rights Advocacy and Education |
28 Southern University Law Review 279 (Special Edition 2001) |
In the 1990's, international human rights discourse included a disquieting debate about a perceived clash between universal human rights and respect for culture. Nowhere did this debate play out more vigorously than in the area of women's rights. This debate was troubling. Many women had banded together as part of a global women's movement to...; Search Snippet: ...Article Ethnocentrism and Feminism: Using a Contextual Methodology in International Women's Rights Advocacy and Education Antoinette Sedillo Lopez [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Patricia Tjaden |
Extent and Nature of Intimate Partner Violence as Measured by the National Violence Against Women Survey |
47 Loyola Law Review 41 (Spring, 2001) |
Today I am going to talk about a study that my colleague, Nancy Thoennes, and I conducted on intimate partner violence using data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (Survey). Findings from the study are published in the report titled Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence. The National Violence Against Women...; Search Snippet: ...Intimate Partner Violence as Measured by the National Violence Against Women Survey [Fnd1] Patricia Tjaden [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 by Loyola... |
2001 |
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| Allen E. White |
Female Genital Mutilation in America: the Federal Dilemma |
10 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 129 (Spring 2001) |
I. Introduction. 130 II. Background and History of Female Genital Mutilation. 133 A. Origins. 133 B. Types of Female Genital Mutilation. 135 C. Patterns of Practice. 136 D. Sociological and Psycho-sexual Significance. 136 E. Religious Significance. 137 F. Medical and Psychological Consequences. 137 G. Early Colonial and Missionary Responses in...; Search Snippet: ...Texas Journal of Women and the Law Spring 2001 Article Female Genital Mutilation in America: the Federal Dilemma Allen E. White... |
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| Alberto B. Lopez |
Forty Yeas and Five Nays--the Nays Have It: Morrison's Blurred Political Accountability and the Defeat of the Civil Rights Provision of the Violence Against Women Act |
69 George Washington Law Review 251 (February, 2001) |
Discrediting the testimony of a female victim of physical abuse, a Maryland judge exclaimed, I don't believe that anything like this could happen to me. Unfortunately, this state judge is not alone in his skeptical attitude toward female victims of physical abuse and nor are insensitive remarks the only obstacles females face when bringing gender...; Search Snippet: ...Defeat of the Civil Rights Provision of the Violence Against Women Act Alberto B. Lopez [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 George Washington... |
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| Julia Lamber |
Gender and Intercollegiate Athletics: Data and Myths |
34 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 151 (Fall & Winter 2000 & 2001) |
This Article explores what nondiscrimination means in the context of intercollegiate athletics. After reviewing the Department of Education's controversial Title IX Policy Interpretation, it critically examines the analytical framework used in Title IX athletic cases and concludes that commonly made analogies to litigation under Title VII of the...; Search Snippet: ...The 21st Century: Title Ix, Gender Equity, and Athletics Article Gender and Intercollegiate Athletics: Data and Myths Julia Lamber [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Deborah M. Weissman |
Gender-based Violence as Judicial Anomaly: Between "The Truly National and the Truly Local" |
42 Boston College Law Review 1081 (September, 2001) |
In United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court struck down the federal civil rights remedy for gender-based violence in the Violence Against Women Act. Notwithstanding evidence considered by Congress documenting the economic impact of domestic violence, and despite the inability of state and local systems to address gender-based violence...; Search Snippet: ...College Law Review Boston College Law Review September, 2001 Article Gender-based Violence as Judicial Anomaly: Between the Truly National And... |
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| Michelle Oberman |
Girls in the Master's House: of Protection, Patriarchy and the Potential for Using the Master's Tools to Reconfigure Statutory Rape Law |
50 DePaul Law Review 799 (Spring 2001) |
After almost a decade of researching, writing, and thinking about the topic of statutory rape, it is clear to me that everyone approaches this issue informed by an often-unarticulated paradigmatic vision of adolescent sex. These paradigms shape the way in which one views the legitimacy of statutory rape laws. Many different associations are...; Search Snippet: ...Scholarship and Practice Tenth Annual Depaul Law Review Symposium Article Girls in the Master's House: of Protection, Patriarchy and the Potential... |
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| Sarah McLean |
Harassment in the Workplace: When Will the Reactions of Ethnic Minorities and Women Be Considered Reasonable? |
40 Washburn Law Journal 593 (Spring, 2001) |
In Mobile, Alabama, an African-American male employee at a paper mill was repeatedly called racist names by his co-workers and supervisors. He was also the target of racist graffiti scrawled on the walls in the paper mill's bathrooms. And on one occasion, two of his co-workers paraded around his desk wearing white clothes imitating the Ku Klux...; Search Snippet: ...The Workplace: When Will the Reactions of Ethnic Minorities and Women Be Considered Reasonable? Watkins V. Bowden, 105 F.3d 1344... |
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| June Carbone |
Has the Gender Divide Become Unbridgeable? The Implications for Social Equality |
5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 31 (Fall 2001) |
Each generation renegotiates the relationship between the sexes. Sometimes, the adjustments are minor: reconsidering the significance of a first kiss, deciding who changes the diapers, resolving the property interest in a diamond ring at the termination of an engagement. In other eras, minor changes combine with major ones to effect a wholesale...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender, Race and Justice Fall 2001 Article Has the Gender Divide Become Unbridgeable? The Implications for Social Equality June Carbone... |
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| Rocio de Lourdes Cordoba |
In Search of a Level Playing Field: Baca V. City of Los Angeles as a Step Toward Gender Equity in Girls' Sports Beyond Title Ix |
24 Harvard Women's Law Journal 139 (Spring, 2001) |
When I first learned about a softball league struggling to obtain permits for public playing fields in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, I thought the problem would be easily resolved. Of course, girls should be able to play on public fields in their neighborhood. The notion that baseball little leagues had priority for the use of...; Search Snippet: ...Baca V. City of Los Angeles as a Step Toward Gender Equity in Girls' Sports Beyond Title Ix Rocio De Lourdes Cordoba [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Blake D. Morant |
Introductory Essay: the Relevance of Gender Bias Studies |
58 Washington and Lee Law Review 1073 (Summer, 2001) |
The work of this study is of abiding importance. It struck me that justice is a woman, but she's been notoriously blind to the subtle but deeply entrenched prejudices that are found in the legal system . . . . Gender issues in legal education are of profound importance to our society and no less critical, of course, is the study of gender bias...; Search Snippet: ...Of the Commonwealth of Virginia Introductory Essay: the Relevance of Gender Bias Studies Blake D. Morant [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 School... |
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| Jayne Elizabeth Zanglein |
Investment Without Education: the Disparate Impact on Women and Minorities in Self-directed Defined Contribution Plans |
5 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 223 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 223 II. The Employer's Need for Financial Certainty. 227 III. The Participant's Need for Financial Certainty. 230 IV. Gender and Ethic Disparity. 232 A. Coverage Rates. 232 B. Savings Rates and Receipt of Benefits. 235 C. Women are More Conservative than Men. 238 D. Minorities' Risk Aversion. 242 V. Planning Increases Savings. 244...; Search Snippet: ...Journal 2001 Article Investment Without Education: the Disparate Impact on Women and Minorities in Self-directed Defined Contribution Plans Jayne Elizabeth... |
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| Dorian L. Eden |
Is it Constitutional and Will it Be Effective? An Analysis of Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women |
11 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 659 (Summer 2001) |
NOTHING EVOKES MORE SYMPATHY than the image of an innocent baby afflicted with a terrible disease. However, each year thousands of babies are born with diseases that could have been prevented. One such disease is HIV. This paper will analyze the current debate over the constitutionality of mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women. My argument is...; Search Snippet: ...Be Effective? An Analysis of Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women Dorian L. Eden [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2001 Health Matrix: The... |
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| Phyllis L. Crocker |
Is the Death Penalty Good for Women? |
4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 917 (2001) |
As I write this essay in the summer of 2000, the death penalty is beginning to undergo a profound reexamination in this country. In particular, Americans are troubled by growing evidence that innocent individuals have been convicted and sentenced to death. The issue of innocence, in conjunction with concerns about high reversal rates, prosecutorial...; Search Snippet: ...And the Criminal Law Is the Death Penalty Good for Women? Phyllis L. Crocker [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Buffalo Criminal Law... |
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| Robert J. Franklin |
Jefferson's Daughters: America's Ambiguity Towards Equal Pay for Women |
11 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 233 (Fall 2001) |
Not all regression analyses are more persuasive than all moral arguments; not all controlled experiments are more persuasive than all introspections. . . . . . . [P]eople can converse on the character of their introspections, and . . . reach conclusions as precise as human talk can. But even if it were true that regression is more precise, this...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Law and Women's Studies Fall 2001 Note Jefferson's Daughters: America's Ambiguity Towards Equal Pay for Women Robert J. Franklin [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 University of Southern... |
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| Megan McCarthy |
Judicial Campaigns: What Can They Tell Us about Gender on the Bench? |
16 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 87 (Spring 2001) |
Over the past thirty years and particularly over the last decade, the number of women judges has increased dramatically. Although women in robes may once have been an anomaly, today it is the courthouse without a significant representation of women that is the anomaly. Nonetheless, as women have entered the legal profession in increasingly large...; Search Snippet: ...Student Papers Judicial Campaigns: What Can They Tell Us about Gender on the Bench? Megan Mccarthy [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Wisconsin... |
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| Nancy Levit |
Keeping Feminism in its Place: Sex Segregation and the Domestication of Female Academics |
49 University of Kansas Law Review 775 (May, 2001) |
I noticed seven years ago the sex-segregated coat racks at my son's elementary school, little shelves carefully labeled Mrs. Fairchild's Boys and Mrs. Fairchild's Girls. This year, my daughter started kindergarten in the same building, and was greeted by the same, although slightly more frayed, labels, still conveying the clear message that it...; Search Snippet: ...Feminism in its Place: Sex Segregation and the Domestication of Female Academics Nancy Levit [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Kansas Law Review... |
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| Teresa A. Miller |
Keeping the Government's Hands off Our Bodies: Mapping a Feminist Legal Theory Approach to Privacy in Cross-gender Prison Searches |
4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 861 (2001) |
The power of privacy is diminishing in the prison setting, and yet privacy is the legal theory prisoners rely upon most to resist searches by correctional officers. Incarcerated women in particular rely upon privacy to shield them from the kind of physical contact that male guards have been known to abuse. The kind of privacy that protects...; Search Snippet: ...Law Keeping the Government's Hands off Our Bodies: Mapping a Feminist Legal Theory Approach to Privacy in Cross- Gender Prison Searches Teresa A. Miller [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Buffalo... |
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| Renée Römkens |
Law as a Trojan Horse: Unintended Consequences of Rights-based Interventions to Support Battered Women |
13 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 265 (2001) |
The call to law and legal rights and their concomitant progress narratives figure centrally in late modern society. This pull is particularly characterized by an appeal to law as an instrument to bring about recognition of various social and political problems as civil rights issues. In many respects, domestic violence can be considered the premier...; Search Snippet: ...Horse: Unintended Consequences of Rights-based Interventions to Support Battered Women Renée Römkens [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Yale Journal of Law... |
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| Leslye Orloff |
Lifesaving Welfare Safety Net Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children: Accomplishments and next Steps |
7 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 597 (Spring, 2001) |
The United States is currently experiencing one of the largest waves of immigration in its history. Contrary to common assumptions, more than half of new immigrants are women. Despite this fact, U.S. immigration policy and most agencies serving immigrants have remained blind to gender differences and have treated all immigrants alike. Immigrant...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article Lifesaving Welfare Safety Net Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children: Accomplishments and next Steps Leslye Orloff [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Sherri A. Jayson |
Loving Infertile Couple Seeks Woman Age 18-31 to Help Have Baby. $6,500 plus Expenses and a Gift: Should We Regulate the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies by Older Women? |
11 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 287 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 288 II. History of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Current Available Methods. 288 III. Procreative Rights. 294 A. Constitutional Rights. 294 B. Federal Regulation. 298 C. State Regulation. 299 IV. Individual Choice or Society's Judgment? Regulation of the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technology by Older Women. 302 A. History...; Search Snippet: ...Of Science and Technology 2001 Comment Loving Infertile Couple Seeks Woman Age 18-31 to Help Have Baby. $6,500 plus Expenses... |
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| Becky Kruse |
Luck and Politics: Judicial Selection Methods and Their Effect on Women on the Bench |
16 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 67 (Spring 2001) |
Turn on a television these days, and you would think women judges have arrived. Click, and you have The Practice where female judge characters outnumber the men by two to one. Click. There is Judging Amy, an entire show devoted to the life of a female family court judge. Click. You hear the acerbic rantings of Judge Judy, who dominates the market...; Search Snippet: ...Luck and Politics: Judicial Selection Methods and Their Effect on Women on the Bench Becky Kruse [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Wisconsin... |
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| Regina Austin , Elizabeth M. Schneider |
Mary Joe Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections on the State of Feminism Today |
36 New England Law Review 1 (Fall, 2001) |
Liz: On Saturday, March 31, 2001, a conference was held at New England School of Law in memory of Mary Joe Frug on the tenth anniversary of her death. The theme of the conference was Transgressing Borders: Women's Bodies, Identities and Families. Regina and I spoke at the opening plenary session. In preparation for the conference, we reread Mary...; Search Snippet: ...Borders: Women's Bodies, Identities and Families Mary Joe Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections on the State Of... |
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| Judith A.M. Scully |
Maternal Mortality, Population Control, and the War in Women's Wombs: a Bioethical Analysis of Quinacrine Sterilizations |
19 Wisconsin International Law Journal 103 (Spring, 2001) |
Quinacrine hydrochloride is a drug that was developed in the late 1920's to prevent and treat malaria. It is also used to treat several other diseases including giardiasis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Given its history, it is hard to imagine how this drug became notoriously known as a female sterilization agent. In the past three decades, two...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article Maternal Mortality, Population Control, and the War in Women's Wombs: a Bioethical Analysis of Quinacrine Sterilizations Judith A.m. Scully... |
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| Jen Miller |
Note: the Evolving Law of Ideas in Girl Friends Productions, Inc. V. Abc, Inc. |
2 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 67 (Spring 2001) |
I. Introduction II. Statement of the Case: Girl Friends Productions, Inc. v. ABC, Inc. III. Background Law A. The Requirement of Novelty B. The Waldman Cases 1. Waldman Publishing Corp. v. Landoll, Inc. 2. Attia v. Society of the New York Hospital IV. Significance of the Case V. Conclusion This Note discusses recent developments in the law of...; Search Snippet: ...Technology Spring 2001 Note: the Evolving Law of Ideas in Girl Friends Productions, Inc. V. Abc, Inc. Jen Miller Copyright ©... |
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| Leslye E. Orloff , Janice v. Kaguyutan |
Offering a Helping Hand: Legal Protections for Battered Immigrant Women: a History of Legislative Responses |
10 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 95 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 97 II. United States Immigration Laws Historically Fostered Domestic Abuse. 100 A. U.S. Immigration Law's Roots in Coverture. 100 B. Enhanced Danger to Battered Immigrants: The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 198. 101 III. Recent Changes in United States Immigration Laws that Attempt to Decrease the Frequency of Domestic...; Search Snippet: ...Article Offering a Helping Hand: Legal Protections for Battered Immigrant Women: a History of Legislative Responses [Fna1] Leslye E. Orloff [Fnaa1... |
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| Maxine Eichner |
On Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory |
36 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Rev. 1 (Winter, 2001) |
Postmodernism has, in the past two decades, swept through the academy. While there is no agreement regarding what, exactly, postmodernism means, it is clear that many of the principles associated with it have profoundly changed the ways that scholars in many disciplines approach the study of their fields. In disciplines such as English and...; Search Snippet: ...Rights-civil Liberties Law Review Winter, 2001 Article on Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory Maxine Eichner [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 by President... |
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| Nancy G. Maxwell |
Opening Civil Marriage to Same-gender Couples: a Netherlands-united States Comparison |
18 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 141 (Spring, 2001) |
This Article examines and compares the legal developments in the Netherlands and the United States concerning the right of same-gender couples to marry. These two countries were selected for this comparison because, in December of 2000, the Dutch Parliament enacted legislation that changed the definition of marriage to include same-gender couples,...; Search Snippet: ...Comparative Law Spring, 2001 Article Opening Civil Marriage to Same- Gender Couples: a Netherlands-united States Comparison [Fna1] Nancy G. Maxwell... |
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| Susan B. Apel |
Privacy in Genetic Testing: Why Women Are Different |
11 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal L.J. 1 (Winter 2001) |
Two years ago, I attended an international conference on genetic testing in Rennes, France, where one panel was scheduled to discuss privacy and genetic testing. The specific topic was whether family members ought to have access to an individual's test results. My assumption, an admittedly naive and ill-informed one, was that no one, including...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Winter 2001 Article Privacy in Genetic Testing: Why Women Are Different Susan B. Apel [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 University... |
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| Jean Reith Schroedel , Pamela Fiber |
Punitive Versus Public Health Oriented Responses to Drug Use by Pregnant Women |
1 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 217 (Spring 2001) |
During the past fifteen years, the term fetal abuse has been applied to physical and developmental harms caused by prenatal drug exposure, but not to other preventable threats to fetal well-being. Although Roe v. Wade established the legal rationale for fetal abuse prosecutions, which held that a state may have a compelling interest in intervening...; Search Snippet: ...Versus Public Health Oriented Responses to Drug Use by Pregnant Women Jean Reith Schroedel [Fna1] Pamela Fiber [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 2001... |
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| Jacqueline St. Joan , Nancy Ehrenreich |
Putting Theory into Practice: a Battered Women's Clemency Clinic |
8 Clinical Law Review 171 (Fall 2001) |
This article describes a clinical course in which law students petitioned Colorado's governor for clemency on behalf of three women who had been convicted of homicide in the deaths of their batterers. It also describes the broader clemency project that evolved out of that course, in which volunteer attorneys submitted five additional clemency...; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall 2001 Article Putting Theory into Practice: a Battered Women's Clemency Clinic [Fna1] Jacqueline St. Joan [Fnaa1] Nancy Ehrenreich [Fnaaa1... |
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| Christopher S. Hargis |
Queer Reasoning: Immigration Policy, Baker V. State of Vermont, and the (Non)recognition of Same-gender Relationships |
10 Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Legal Issues 211 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 211 II. Historical Treatment of Homosexuality Under Immigration Law. 217 III. Marriage, Family, and Immigration Policy. 222 IV. Immigration Policy and Other Controversial Relationships--Polygamous and Incestuous Marriages. 227 A. Incestuous Marriages. 227 B. Polygamous Marriages. 229 V. Baker v. Vermont--Recognizing the Validity of...; Search Snippet: ...Baker V. State of Vermont, and the (Non)recognition of Same- Gender Relationships Christopher S. Hargis [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Law And... |
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| Gisela Webb |
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective. By Amina Wadud. New York: Oxford University Press 1999. Pp. 118. $11.95. Isbn: 0-195-12836-2. |
15 Journal of Law and Religion 519 (2000-2001) |
One cannot fully grasp the scope and significance of the work being done by and about women in Islam without reading Amina Wadud's Qur'an and Woman. This slim volume is probably the most widely read contemporary Qur'anic exegetical text in the world dealing with the concept of woman. In the decade since the publication of its first edition, printed...; Search Snippet: ...Applications: Family Law and the Role of Women Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective. By Amina Wadud. New York: Oxford University Press 1999... |
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| Lucie E. White |
Raced Histories, Mother Friendships, and the Power of Care: Conversations with Women in Project Head Start |
76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1569 (2001) |
This Symposium marks the advent of a new feminist conver-sation about care. This is a moment that I welcome with a good deal of hope. Yet at the same time, it is a moment that I cannot help but witness with some despair. Why the mixed feelings? I feel hope because a new conversation about care is finally happening, and there are reasons to think...; Search Snippet: ...Histories, Mother Friendships, and the Power of Care: Conversations with Women in Project Head Start Lucie E. White [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| David B. Mustard, University of Georgia |
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.s. Federal Courts |
44 Journal of Law & Economics 285 (April, 2001) |
This paper examines 77,236 federal offenders sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and concludes the following. First, after controlling for extensive criminological, demographic, and socioeconomic variables, I found that blacks, males, and offenders with low levels of education and income receive substantially longer sentences. Second,...; Search Snippet: ...Economics Journal of Law & Economics April, 2001 Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.s. Federal Courts [Fna1... |
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| Clare McGlynn |
Reclaiming a Feminist Vision: the Reconciliation of Paid Work and Family Life in European Union Law and Policy |
7 Columbia Journal of European Law 241 (Spring, 2001) |
The beginning of the twenty-first century is a symbolic moment to give shape to the new social contract on gender, in which de facto equality of men and women in the public and private domains will be socially accepted as a condition for democracy, a prerequisite for citizenship and a guarantee of individual autonomy and freedom, and will be...; Search Snippet: ...Columbia Journal of European Law Spring, 2001 Article Reclaiming a Feminist Vision: the Reconciliation of Paid Work and Family Life In... |
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| Ryiah Lilith |
Reconsidering the Abuse That Dare Not Speak its Name: a Criticism of Recent Legal Scholarship Regarding Same-gender Domestic Violence |
7 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 181 (2001) |
Introduction. 182 I. Theoretical Issues. 185 A. The Non-Gendered Model of Domestic Violence. 185 B. Revisiting the Claim of Equal Frequency between Same-Gender and Opposite-Gender Domestic Violence. 190 1. Men who Beat the Men who Love Them (by David Island and Patrick Letellier). 192 2. Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships (by...; Search Snippet: ...Name: [Fnd1] a Criticism of Recent Legal Scholarship Regarding Same- Gender Domestic Violence Ryiah Lilith [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 University Of... |
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| Christina E. Wells , Erin Elliott Motley |
Reinforcing the Myth of the Crazed Rapist: a Feminist Critique of Recent Rape Legislation |
81 Boston University Law Review 127 (February, 2001) |
Introduction. 128 I. Recent Legislative Initiatives Regarding Sexual Violence Against Women. 131 A . Laws Requiring Registration and Notification Regarding Sexual Offenders. 131 B. Sexual Predator Laws. 135 CFederal Rules of Evidence 413-415. 139 D . The Violence Against Women Act. 143 II. Deconstructing Rape. 145 A . A Brief History of Rape...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article Reinforcing the Myth of the Crazed Rapist: a Feminist Critique of Recent Rape Legislation Christina E. Wells [Fna1] Erin... |
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| Karen Knop , Christine Chinkin |
Remembering Chrystal Macmillan: Women's Equality and Nationality in International Law |
22 Michigan Journal of International Law 523 (Summer 2001) |
I. Contemporary Relevance. 532 II. Nationality Under International And Domestic Law. 536 A. The Concept of Nationality. 536 B. Bases for Nationality. 542 III. Analyzing Women's Equality In Nationality Law. 544 A. First-Generation Issue of Equality: Nationality ofMarried Women. 544 B. Second-Generation Issues of Equality. 546 1. Ability to Pass...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of International Law Summer 2001 Article Remembering Chrystal Macmillan: Women's Equality and Nationality in International Law Karen Knop [Fna1] Christine... |
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