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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... 2001   Yes
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... 2001   Yes
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... 2001    
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... 2001   Yes
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 ©... 2001   Yes
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... 2001 African/Black American  
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... 2001    
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... 2001    
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... 2001    
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... 2001   Yes
  Report of the Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender Working Group 70 Fordham Law Review 411 (November, 2001) What should the Conference recommend to change the way parents involved with the child welfare system are treated by the system and perceived by the public, with particular emphasis on issues of race, class, ethnicity, and gender? The working group examined the way parents involved with the child welfare system are treated by the system and...; Search Snippet: ...Child Welfare System Report of the Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender Working Group [Fn1] Copyright (C) 2001 Fordham Law Review Charge... 2001    
Francine Banner Rewriting History: the Use of Feminist Narratives to Deconstruct the Myth of the Capital Defendant 26 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 569 (2000-2001) Those whom we would banish . . . from the human community . . . often speak in too faint a voice to be heard above society's demand for punishment. It is the particular role of the courts to hear these voices, for the Constitution declares that the majoritarian chorus may not alone dictate the conditions of social life. [W]hen you are powerless,...; Search Snippet: ...Social Change 2000-2001 Article Rewriting History: the Use of Feminist Narratives to Deconstruct the Myth of the Capital Defendant Francine... 2001    
Sally Engle Merry Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence Against Women in the Context of Globalization 35 Law and Society Review 39 (2001) Within the burgeoning global discourse on human rights, gender violence provides one of the most important examples of the use of rights to tackle a newly defined social problem. A comparison of three quite different approaches to violence against women in a single town, each of which is rooted in a global movement, reveals sharp differences in the...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence Against Women in the Context of Globalization Sally Engle Merry [Fna1] Copyright... 2001   Yes
Christine Duh Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty by Jody Raphael. Boston: Northeastern University Press, June 2000. 184 Pp. $45.00 Cloth, $16.95 Paper. 16 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 227 (2001) Saving Bernice is a harrowing glimpse at one woman's fight to get off welfare while coping with domestic violence. The story of Bernice, a young African-American woman, challenges many of the conventional views and stereotypes of single welfare mothers. Bernice is not part of a dependent class with no motivation to work, nor is she burdened by a...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Women's Law Journal 2001 Books Received Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty by Jody Raphael. Boston: Northeastern University Press... 2001 African/Black American Yes
Julie Goldscheid , Risa E. Kaufman Seeking Redress for Gender-based Biascrimes--charting New Ground in Familiar Legal Territory 6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 265 (Spring 2001) Efforts to incorporate gender-based bias crimes into hate crime schemes have been met with both great progress and discouraging setbacks in recent years. While it should seem self-evident that gender animus can trigger bias-motivated violence much like attacks based on other forms of prejudice, legal recognition of gender-motivated violence as a...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: Identities in the Year 2000 & Beyond Seeking Redress for Gender-based Biascrimes--charting New Ground in Familiar Legal Territory Julie... 2001    
Roger E. Hartley Senate Delay of Minority Judicial Nominees a Look at Race, Gender, and Experience 84 Judicature 190 (January/February, 2001) An unprecedented number of nominations have been delayed in recent years-- have minorities and females, as some critics charge, been delayed longer? Since 1997, the media have focused on the issue of confirmation delays for President Clinton's judi-cial nominations. Early in the controversy, there were real concerns that these delays had impacted...; Search Snippet: ...Senate Delay of Minority Judicial Nominees a Look at Race, Gender, and Experience Roger E. Hartley [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 By... 2001    
Marvin Dunson III Sex, Gender, and Transgender: the Present and Future of Employment Discrimination Law 22 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 465 (2001) I. Introduction. 466 II. The Treatment of Transgenders in Title VII Caselaw. 468 A. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins--A Cause for Celebration?. 475 B. Make Room for Schwenk. 479 III. The Treatment of Transgenders in State Anti-Discriminatory Caselaw. 481 A. State Cases Refusing to Extend Protection to Transgenders. 482 B. State Cases Extending...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2001 Comment Sex, Gender, and Transgender: the Present and Future of Employment Discrimination Law... 2001    
Tanya Katerí Hernández Sexual Harassment and Racial Disparity: the Mutual Construction of Gender and Race 4 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 183 (Spring 2001) I. Introduction II. Racial Disparity of Sexual Harassment A. The Statistical Data B. Early Explanations for the Statistical Pattern III. Prostitution Paradigm as a Causal Factor A. Historical Backdrop to the Prostitution Paradigm B. The Sex Tourism Comparison: Overt Expression of Racialized Gender Stereotypes 1. Sex Tourism Defined 2. Prevalence of...; Search Snippet: ...Articles Sexual Harassment and Racial Disparity: the Mutual Construction of Gender and Race Tanya Katerí Hernández [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Journal... 2001    
Lina McMeans-Muloway Should the Drug Testing of Pregnant Women Fall Within the "Special Needs" Exception to the Warrant Requirement? An Examination of Ferguson et Al. V. City of Charleston, S.c., et Al. 3 Journal of Legal Advocacy and Practice 59 (2001) On October 4, 2000, the United States Supreme Court heard the case of Ferguson Et Al. v. City of Charleston, S.C., Et Al., an appeal from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court will be confronted with the question of whether the warrantless drug testing of pregnant women falls within the special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Notes and Comments Should the Drug Testing of Pregnant Women Fall Within the Special Needs Exception to the Warrant Requirement... 2001   Yes
Alyson Dodi Meiselman , Phyllis Randolph Frye , Katrina C. Rose Slavery, Sex & Gender, and the Ancient Doctrine of Stare Decisis: a Re-examination of the Doctrine in Light of Time-influenced Legal Reasoning and the Current State of Transgender Legal Issues 2 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 735 (Summer, 2001) The history of slavery provides a parallel to the present struggle of transgendered individuals. Our objective is to persuade the reader to advocate legally appropriate analyses of cases, which are presently used under the guise of stare decisis to block advances in the law. Litigation over issues - including gender identity - recurs with ever...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender and the Law Summer, 2001 Article Slavery, Sex & Gender, and the Ancient Doctrine of Stare Decisis: a Re-examination... 2001    
Laura Ann Foster Social Security and African American Families: Unmasking Race and Gender Discrimination 12 UCLA Women's Law Journal 55 (Fall/Winter 2001) Despite the greater dependency on social security of African Americans and women, specific elements of the social security system discriminate against these groups by penalizing dual-income couples, centralizing marriage, and linking benefits to wages. Although the redistribution of income under social security is complex and scholars debate the...; Search Snippet: ...Fall/winter 2001 December 2001 Recent Development Social Security and African American Families: Unmasking Race and Gender Discrimination Laura Ann Foster [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Regents Of... 2001 African/Black American  
Risa E. Kaufman State Eras in the New Era: Securing Poor Women's Equality by Eliminating Reproductive-based Discrimination 24 Harvard Women's Law Journal 191 (Spring, 2001) The U.S. Supreme Court dramatically curtailed federal provisions guaranteeing women's equality during its 1999-2000 term. Securing its legacy of heralding in a new era of federalism by restricting Congress' power to enact laws, the Rehnquist Court invalidated the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act and held that states are...; Search Snippet: ...Recent Development State Eras in the New Era: Securing Poor Women's Equality by Eliminating Reproductive-based Discrimination Risa E. Kaufman [Fna1... 2001   Yes
Elizabeth Rapaport Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women's Capital Cases 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 967 (2001) Clemency in capital cases, once routine, has become a rare event in the contemporary death penalty era. Although the majority of state executives enjoy the traditional plenary power in clemency cases, very few have used it liberally. As use of the power has declined, the political risks of commutation have intensified. The contemporary governor...; Search Snippet: ...Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women's Capital Cases Elizabeth Rapaport [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Buffalo Criminal... 2001   Yes
Kay Levine, Virginia Mellema Strategizing the Street: How Law Matters in the Lives of Women in the Street-level Drug Economy 26 Law and Social Inquiry 169 (Winter, 2001) The criminal law (indeed all law) matters . . . because it is a resource. . . . It is a source of support that people may draw on in the same way they draw on other resources in their environment such as savings accounts, accumulated human capital, and the availability of others to help them achieve their goals. Law may be an intangible resource,...; Search Snippet: ...Strategizing the Street: How Law Matters in the Lives of Women in the Street-level Drug Economy Ewick, Patricia, and Susan... 2001   Yes
Heather Johnston Nicholson, Mary F. Maschino Strong, Smart, and Bold Girls: the Girls Incorporated® Approach to Education 29 Fordham Urban Law Journal 561 (December, 2001) Girls Incorporated® (Girls Inc.) is a national, nonprofit youth organization that inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold. The organization's vision is to empower girls and help create an equitable society. Its roots go back to the Industrial Revolution when young women left their family farms to work in the textile mills of the...; Search Snippet: ...Urban Law Journal December, 2001 Article Strong, Smart, and Bold Girls: the Girls Incorporated® Approach to Education Heather Johnston Nicholson Mary F. Maschino... 2001   Yes
Andrea Marsh Testing Pregnant Women and Newborns for Hiv: Legal and Ethical Responses to Public Health Efforts to Prevent Pediatric Aids 13 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 195 (2001) I. MEDICAL BACKGROUND. 199 A. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV/AIDS IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 199 B. PERINATAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV. 200 C. DIAGNOSIS OF HIV INFECTION IN WOMEN AND INFANTS. 204 D. DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RECOMMENDED MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN WITH PERINATALLY ACQUIRED HIV INFECTION. 205 II. THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF CONTROLLING WOMEN'S...; Search Snippet: ...Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2001 Article Testing Pregnant Women and Newborns for Hiv: Legal and Ethical Responses to Public... 2001   Yes
Reva B. Siegel Text in Contest: Gender and the Constitution from a Social Movement Perspective 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 297 (November, 2001) The American feminist movement has twice mobilized for constitutional change. The constitutional amendment secured by the first-wave feminist movement is no longer of consequence, while the constitutional amendment sought by the second-wave feminist movement was never ratified. Yet today, courts and commentators agree that the Constitution...; Search Snippet: ...2001 Symposium Social Movements and Law Reform Text in Contest: Gender and the Constitution from a Social Movement Perspective Reva B... 2001    
Laura T. Kessler The Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Law, Women's Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal Theory 34 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 371 (Spring 2001) Title VII has prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of pregnancy since 1978, when Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), but it does not require employers to recognize women's caregiving obligations beyond the immediate, physical events of pregnancy and childbirth. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)...; Search Snippet: ...Reform Spring 2001 Article the Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Law, Women's Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal... 2001   Yes
Nimish R. Ganatra The Cultural Dynamic in Domestic Violence: Understanding the Additional Burdens Battered Immigrant Women of Color Face in the United States 2 Journal of Law in Society 109 (Winter, 2001) The women's movement has made significant progress on many issues over the past thirty years. Included among the accomplishments are the gains achieved by the anti-domestic violence movement in making violence against women a crime and a growing concern for society. However, not all of the intended beneficiaries of the anti-domestic violence...; Search Snippet: ...Dynamic in Domestic Violence: Understanding the Additional Burdens Battered Immigrant Women of Color Face in the United States Nimish R. Ganatra... 2001   Yes
Devon W. Carbado , Mitu Gulati The Fifth Black Woman 11 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 701 (2001) This symposium raises a pointed question about intersectionality: What is its future? The short answer is that the future of intersectionality is promising. In part, this promise derives from the foundation intersectionality has laid for the construction of an entire set of new theories of discrimination. One such theory is identity performance. In...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 2001 Article the Fifth Black Woman Devon W. Carbado [Fna1] Mitu Gulati [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 2001... 2001 African/Black American Yes
Janet C. Hoeffel The Gender Gap: Revealing Inequities in Admission of Social Science Evidence in Criminal Cases 24 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 41 (Fall, 2001) The history of the admission of Battered Woman Syndrome and Rape Trauma Syndrome evidence reveals more than the favorable disposition of courts towards women as victims of violence. It reveals a more basic bias in the application of the rules of evidence in a criminal case. Whereas the evidentiary pendulum is in theory weighted to swing in favor of...; Search Snippet: ...Altheimer Symposium the Impact of Science on Legal Decisions the Gender Gap: Revealing Inequities in Admission of Social Science Evidence In... 2001    
Erin Meehan Richmond The Interface of Poverty and Violence Against Women: How Federal and State Welfare Reform Can Best Respond 35 New England Law Review 569 (Winter, 2001) [V]iolence affects poor women in two critical ways: it makes them poor and it keeps them poor. In the United States, violence against women has reached epidemic proportions. The National Clearinghouse on Domestic Violence reports that in the United States men batter three to four million women a year. The United States Congress has allocated...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 2001 Note the Interface of Poverty and Violence Against Women: How Federal and State Welfare Reform Can Best Respond [Fna1... 2001   Yes
Lisa A. Crooms The Mythical, Magical "Underclass": Constructing Poverty in Race and Gender, Making the Public Private and the Private Public 5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 87 (Fall 2001) Damn can I get that democracy and equality and privacy You busy watchin' me watchin' me That you're blind baybe You neglect to see the drugs comin' into my community Weapons comin' into my community Dirty cops in my community and you keep sayin' that I'm free And you keep sayin' that I'm free and you keep sayin' that I'm free Busy watchin' me The...; Search Snippet: ...Article the Mythical, Magical Underclass: Constructing Poverty in Race and Gender, Making the Public Private and the Private Public Lisa A... 2001    
REYNALDO ANAYA VALENCIA , MIGUEL A. ORTIZ The Persistent Challenge of Gender and Law: Views from One Law School's Student Body 3 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 157 (Spring 2001) Narrative. 158 I. Introduction. 162 II. Gender and the Legal Profession. 163 St. Mary's Law Survey Results. 165 III. Sexual Harassment. 167 St. Mary's Law Survey Results. 170 IV. Rape. 174 St. Mary's Law Survey Results. 177 V. Domestic Violence. 178 St. Mary's Law Survey Results. 184 VI. Abortion and Reproductive Rights. 185 St. Mary's Law Survey...; Search Snippet: ...On Minority Issues Spring 2001 Article the Persistent Challenge of Gender and Law: Views from One Law School's Student Body Reynaldo... 2001    
Linda Martin Pybas The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present. By Mary Frances Berry. New York, Ny: First Vintage Books. 1999. Pp. 295. $13.00 1 Margins: Maryland's Interdisciplinary Publication on Race, Religion, Gender, and Class 169 (Spring, 2001) Says author Berry, when a black man is lynched or executed it is because the powerful--most usually white males--defined him as an object--the other--whose punishment, whether guilty or not, signs racial subordination through perpetuation of a negative image of black males. Furthermore she says, when an African American woman's rape is ignored,...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, and Class Spring, 2001 Book Review the Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism And... 2001 African/Black American  
Barbara L. Bernier The Praxis of Church and State in the (Under)development of Women's Religion from France to the New World 7 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 659 (Spring, 2001) There is no penalty cruel enough to punish the evil of witches . . . since all their wickedness, blasphemies and all their designs rise up against the majesty of God to offend Him in a thousand ways. I was surprised to learn of the insurrection of black, white and colored women in New Orleans in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My...; Search Snippet: ...The Praxis of Church and State in the (Under)development of Women's Religion from France to the New World Barbara L. Bernier... 2001 African/Black American Yes
Eda Katharine Tinto The Role of Gender and Relationship in Reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws 76 New York University Law Review 906 (June, 2001) In recent years, New York's drug sentencing laws--the Rockefeller Drug Laws-- have come under attack due to their failure to reduce drug use despite the growing prison population. The political and academic communities now are debating how best to reform these laws. In this Note, Eda Tinto highlights the absence of a much-needed discussion...; Search Snippet: ...York University Law Review June, 2001 Notes the Role of Gender and Relationship in Reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws Eda Katharine... 2001    
Marina Angel The School Shooters: Surprise! Boys Are Far More Violent than Girls and Gender Stereotypes Underlie School Violence 27 Ohio Northern University Law Review 485 (2001) Sexual harassment, stalking, sexual assault, and separation attack homicides are all new words in our vocabulary. They are still not fully understood individually and certainly not understood as related. Sexual harassment first came into use as a term in the late 1970's. However, the term is still not integrated into society's consciousness. For...; Search Snippet: ...The School Shooters: Surprise! Boys Are Far More Violent than Girls and Gender Stereotypes Underlie School Violence Marina Angel [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001... 2001   Yes
Brenda Simon The Underrepresentation of Women on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 16 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 113 (Spring 2001) From the bench of one of the most powerful courts in the country, only one woman speaks. Though the national average representation of women on federal courts of appeal is surprisingly low at 10.3%, that percentage is even lower on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit--a mere 6.3%. This lack of women is striking, especially considering that...; Search Snippet: ...Boalt Hall), Spring Semester 2000 Student Papers the Underrepresentation of Women on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Brenda... 2001   Yes
Linda Burnham The Wellspring of Black Feminist Theory 28 Southern University Law Review 265 (Special Edition 2001) The idea that race, class and gender are interrelated dynamics of power and oppression has gained sufficient currency in the academic world to go by the shorthand intersectionality, or intersection theory. But the origins of contemporary black feminist theory are not sufficiently known or acknowledged, and, given the invaluable work of...; Search Snippet: ...Gender Facing Women of Color Article the Wellspring of Black Feminist Theory Linda Burnham [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Southern University Law... 2001 African/Black American  
Rhonda Reaves There's No Crying in Baseball: Sports and the Legal and Social Construction of Gender 4 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 283 (Spring 2001) I. Introduction II. Title IX and Participation in Athletics III. Title IX and Sexual Harassment in Athletics A. The Extent of Harassment and the Problem of Underreporting B. The Reach and Limitations of Title IX C. Defining Harassment 1. My Coach Says He Loves Me: Sexual Relationships Between Coaches and Athletes 2. Hugs, Kisses, and Other...; Search Snippet: ...In Baseball: Sports and the Legal and Social Construction of Gender Rhonda Reaves [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Journal of Gender, Race... 2001    
Lorraine A. Schmall Transnational Issues of Women and Pension Security and Reform 14 New York International Law Review 87 (Winter, 2001) Poets, philosophers, and playwrights have long told us that youth is only temporary. Old age is an inevitable contingency. No society can develop without planning for its elderly, not only out of respect, or fondness, or pity, but because advancing age may signify increased dependency. A woman's quest for economic security is as old and as...; Search Snippet: ...Perspectives on Labor and Employment Law Conference Transnational Issues of Women and Pension Security and Reform Professor Lorraine A. Schmall [Fna1... 2001   Yes
Marjorie L. Girth Ub's Women in Law: Overcoming Barriers During Their First Hundred Years 9 Buffalo Women's Law Journal 51 (2000-2001) Reaching a significant milestone often causes an institution to reflect upon its history and to attempt to predict future developments. To celebrate having graduated women for 100 years, the University at Buffalo's Law School (hereinafter, UB) convened a Centennial Conference titled Sisters in Law: A Century of Achievement at UB Law in 1999. The...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Buffalo Women's Law Journal 2000-2001 Article Ub's Women in Law: Overcoming Barriers During Their First Hundred Years Marjorie... 2001   Yes
Hope Lewis Universal Mother: Transnational Migration and the Human Rights of Black Women in the Americas 5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 197 (Fall 2001) You don't have to be teacher and nurse to be important. Women migrants often embody--literally--the absence, the breakdown, or the inequities of the international legal regime. War, global economic restructuring, human rights abuses, the persistence of gender oppression all over the world each play a role--alone, in combination, or alongside other...; Search Snippet: ...Universal Mother: Transnational Migration and the Human Rights of Black Women in the Americas Hope Lewis [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Journal... 2001 African/Black American Yes
Leila Rothwell Vawa 2000's Retention of the "Extreme Hardship" Standard for Battered Women in Cancellation of Removal Cases: Not Your Typical Deportation Case 23 University of Hawaii Law Review 555 (Summer, 2001) He always humiliated me in front of our friends. During every fight he would throw heavy objects at me, chase me with kitchen knives, choke me, kick me, slap me, and even while driving he would keep hitting me for apparently no reason. He also abused me sexually all the time . . . . The night I left him, it was the worst beating . . . . I knew if...; Search Snippet: ...Vawa 2000's Retention of the Extreme Hardship Standard for Battered Women in Cancellation of Removal Cases: Not Your Typical Deportation Case... 2001   Yes
Sherrilyn A. Ifill Weaving a Safety Net: Poor Women, Welfare, and Work in the Chicken and Catfish Industries 1 Margins: Maryland's Interdisciplinary Publication on Race, Religion, Gender, and Class 23 (Spring, 2001) The 1990s ushered in the largest and most sustained economic boom in U.S. history. This robust economic picture has been marked by the maintenance of low unemployment rates. Nationally, the unemployment rate has remained at, near or below five percent for the past eight years. Yet another indicator of American economic prosperity has been the...; Search Snippet: ...And Class Spring, 2001 Article Weaving a Safety Net: Poor Women, Welfare, and Work in the Chicken and Catfish Industries Sherrilyn... 2001   Yes
Lisa R. Hasday What the Violence Against Women Act Forgot: a Call for Women's Self-defense 13 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 175 (2001) When the issue of violence against women emerged as an issue in the early 1970s, feminists on both sides of the Atlantic responded by creating domestic violence shelters and rape crisis and counseling centers, in addition to agitating for legal reform. These strategies remain dominant in contemporary feminist thinking on how to combat violence...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Feminism 2001 Article What the Violence Against Women Act Forgot: a Call for Women's Self-defense Lisa R. Hasday [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2001 Yale... 2001   Yes
Frederick M. Denny Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-activists in North America . Edited by Gisela Webb. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 2000). Pp. Xxv, 295. Price Not Available. Isbn 0-815-62851-x Paper. Isbn: 0-815-62852-8. 15 Journal of Law and Religion 535 (2000-2001) This collaborative collection of essays, written expressly for this volume, appears in the scholarly book series Women and Gender in North American Religions, edited by Amanda Porterfield and Mary Farrell Bednarowski. The collection features American Muslim women scholar-activists expressing their views on a wide range of topics within the four...; Search Snippet: ...Law and the Role of Women Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-activists in North America . Edited by Gisela Webb. Syracuse... 2001   Yes
Mark S. Hurwitz , Drew Noble Lanier Women and Minorities on State and Federal Appellate Benches, 1985 and 1999 85 Judicature 84 (September/October, 2001) The presence of political minorities in the U.S. judiciary provides enormous symbolic, and perhaps political, import to a vital branch of government. Indeed, over the last 25 years there has been a myriad of efforts to increase the number and proportion of female and minority judges on both the state and federal courts. At the same time, there also...; Search Snippet: ...84 2001 Wl 1395370 Judicature Judicature September/october, 2001 Prelim Women and Minorities on State and Federal Appellate Benches, 1985 And... 2001   Yes
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Women in the Legal Profession at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Assessing Glass Ceilings and Open Doors 49 University of Kansas Law Review 733 (May, 2001) The movement of women into the legal profession is one of the great under-noticed revolutions of our time. Not long ago, women were virtually excluded from law schools and the few who were admitted usually found their time there extremely unpleasant. Rationales included the view that law books were too heavy for women to carry; that there were no...; Search Snippet: ...Review University of Kansas Law Review May, 2001 Symposium Papers Women in the Legal Profession at the Turn of the Twenty... 2001   Yes
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