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| Richard Kamm |
Extending the Progress of the Feminist Movement to Encompass the Rights of Migrant Farmworker Women |
75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 765 (2000) |
One of the longest lasting and most enduring criticisms leveled against the feminist movement, ironically by feminists themselves, is that the women's movement has focused on the needs of middle- and upper-class white women to the exclusion of women who are lower-class or belong to racial or ethnic minority groups. In support of this critique,...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium on Unfinished Feminist Business Extending the Progress of the Feminist Movement to Encompass the Rights of Migrant Farmworker Women Richard Kamm [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 by Iit Chicago-kent... |
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| Martha S. West |
Faculty Women's Struggle for Equality at the University of California Davis |
10 UCLA Women's Law Journal 259 (Spring 2000) |
This Article traces the struggle over salary equity for faculty women at the University of California Davis (UCD) as an illustration of the serious hostility encountered by efforts to achieve equality for women in the 1990s. In the spring of 1994, the UCD administration released results of a preliminary study indicating that faculty women earned...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Ucla Women's Law Journal Spring 2000 Symposium Faculty Women's Struggle for Equality at the University of California Davis Martha... |
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| Pamela J. Smith |
Failing to Mentor Sapphire: the Actionability of Blocking Black Women from Initiating Mentoring Relationships |
10 UCLA Women's Law Journal 373 (Spring 2000) |
This Article focuses on a unique aspect of the topic for the UCLA Women's Law Journal Spring 2000 Symposium: Textbook Sexism: Discrimination Against Women in Academia. In particular, Professor Pamela J. Smith contends that the failure to mentor Black women in academia is a form of discrimination that should be separately actionable under Title VII...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium Failing to Mentor Sapphire: the Actionability of Blocking Black Women from Initiating Mentoring Relationships Pamela J. Smith [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Heather Nelson |
'Fatal in Fact'?: an Examination of the Viability of Affirmative Action for Women in the Post-adarand Era |
21 Women's Rights Law Reporter 151 (Summer 2000) |
Affirmative action programs, originally developed to remedy the inequitable results of years of overt discrimination against women and minorities, are now under siege. Race-based affirmative action programs have attracted the most controversy and have been subject to legal restrictions. Opponents of affirmative action offer a variety of criticisms,...; Search Snippet: ...Fact?: an Examination of the Viability of Affirmative Action for Women in the Post-adarand Era Heather Nelson [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Linda G. Mills |
Feminist Phallacies: the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure and the Power of Law |
25 Law and Social Inquiry 1215 (Fall 2000) |
Laura Gómez. Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 207. $19.95. Power is infused in every human negotiation, and is especially evident in the politics and sociology of law. Although the general topic of the dynamics of power in law has...; Search Snippet: ...Social Inquiry Law and Social Inquiry Fall 2000 Review Essay Feminist Phallacies: the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure and the Power... |
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| Herma Hill Kay |
From the Second Sex to the Joint Venture: an Overview of Women's Rights and Family Law in the United States During the Twentieth Century |
88 California Law Review 2017 (December, 2000) |
Introduction. 2019 I. Family Law in the Nineteenth Century. 2021 A. Marriage Defines Women's Status. 2021 B. Women Begin to Define Themselves. 2022 C. Beyond Indissolubility: Divorce Laws in the New Nation. 2024 1. The Debate Over the Marriage Question . 2026 2. The Conservative Attack on Easy Divorce . 2028 D. The Nineteenth-Century Women's...; Search Snippet: ...The Second Sex to the Joint Venture: an Overview of Women's Rights and Family Law in the United States During The... |
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| Shruti Rana |
Fulfilling Technology's Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-tech Underclass |
15 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 272 (2000) |
I. Introduction. 273 II. The Political Economy of the Global Electronics Assembly Line. 275 III. Women in the Malaysian Electronics Industry. 278 A. Penang--Asia's Silicon Island . 280 B. The Development of a Gender-Based Labor Force. 282 C. Gender, Race, and Law in Malaysian Government Policy. 285 D. Current Issues Facing Women Assembly Workers...; Search Snippet: ...Journal 2000 Article Fulfilling Technology's Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-tech Underclass Shruti Rana [Fnd1... |
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| Renée L. Jarusinsky |
Gender Difference in Perceiving Violence and its Implication for the Vawa's Civil Rights Remedy |
27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 965 (Winter 2000) |
What is violence? A typical dictionary definition of violence defines it as swift and intense force, rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment, and an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power. A legal dictionary defines violence as [u]njust or unwarranted exercise of force and the exertion of any physical force so as...; Search Snippet: ...Urban Law Journal Fordham Urban Law Journal Winter 2000 Notes Gender Difference in Perceiving Violence and its Implication for the Vawa's... |
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| Elaine Martin , Barry Pyle |
Gender, Race, and Partisanship on the Michigan Supreme Court |
63 Albany Law Review 1205 (2000) |
Judicial research has increasingly focused on the importance of state supreme courts as players in policy-making. If only because of the large volume of cases that they hear each year, state courts of last resort exert a tremendous influence. State supreme courts have come to the attention of judicial scholars recently because of a trend called the...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 1128769 Albany Law Review Albany Law Review 2000 Article Gender, Race, and Partisanship on the Michigan Supreme Court Elaine Martin... |
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| Angela P. Harris |
Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice |
52 Stanford Law Review 777 (April, 2000) |
This essay examines the connection between violence and masculinity that leads men to appoint themselves the protectors of racialized communities and that constitutes its own interracial brotherhood linking lawbreakers and law enforcers. Feminists are familiar with the concept of gender violence, but this term is usually used to denote violence...; Search Snippet: ...2000 Prosecuting Violence: a Colloquy on Race, Community, and Justice Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice Angela P. Harris [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| D. Allison Baker , Lauren Hoffer , Monica Meier |
Gender-based Discrimination |
1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 503 (Spring, 2000) |
I. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 506 A. Overview. 506 B. Parties Subject to Title VII. 506 C. Prohibited Sex Discrimination. 507 D. Procedures. 513 E. Framework for Analysis. 519 II. Types of Sex Discrimination Claims under Title VII. 520 A. Disparate Treatment. 521 B. Disparate Impact. 536 C. Comparable Worth. 538 III. Remedies under...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Gender and Sexuality Law Employment Discrimination Law Chapter Gender-based Discrimination D. Allison Baker [Fna1] Lauren Hoffer [Fnaa1] Monica... |
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| Mary B. Mahowald |
Genes, Clones, and Gender Equality |
3 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 495 (Spring-Summer 2000) |
The concept of gender neutrality has long had wide appeal to liberal thinkers. In many areas, gender neutral language attests to this appeal and suggests that men and women are, and should be treated as, equals. Often, gender neutral language is appropriate and desirable on moral grounds-- just as racial or ethnic neutrality is appropriate and...; Search Snippet: ...Health Care Law Spring-summer 2000 Articles Genes, Clones, and Gender Equality Mary B. Mahowald [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 Depaul University... |
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| Ruth Jones |
Guardianship for Coercively Controlled Battered Women: Breaking the Control of the Abuser |
88 Georgetown Law Journal 605 (April, 2000) |
The destructive impact of violence in an intimate relationship may be so complete that the victim is rendered incapable of independent judgment even to save one's own life. When thirty-two-year-old Hedda Nussbaum met Joel Steinberg, she was an independent, competent, sophisticated, intelligent person who was gaining recognition in her career...; Search Snippet: ...Georgetown Law Journal April, 2000 Guardianship for Coercively Controlled Battered Women: Breaking the Control of the Abuser Ruth Jones [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Nawal H. Ammar, Edna Erez |
Health Delivery Systems in Women's Prisons: the Case of Ohio |
64-JUN Federal Probation 19 (June, 2000) |
THE DRAMATIC GROWTH in the women's prison population has contributed to making the particular needs of incarcerated women a prominent issue among practitioners, academicians, and human rights advocates. The October 1998 Amnesty International findings of abuse of women prisoners and of inadequate medical care for them in Michigan, Illinois,...; Search Snippet: ...Federal Probation Federal Probation June, 2000 Health Delivery Systems in Women's Prisons: the Case of Ohio Nawal H. Ammar Edna Erez... |
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| Celestine I. Nyamu |
How Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries? |
41 Harvard International Law Journal 381 (Spring, 2000) |
Human rights and development are the two fields of international law that have addressed gender and culture in developing countries. Human rights scholars and practitioners have invoked domestic and international human rights standards to eradicate certain Third World cultural practices, particularly with regard to women. Similarly, the field of...; Search Snippet: ...Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries? Celestine I. Nyamu [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Martin A. Geer |
Human Rights and Wrongs in Our Own Backyard: Incorporating International Human Rights Protections under Domestic Civil Rights Law--a Case Study of Women in United States Prisons |
13 Harvard Human Rights Journal 71 (Spring, 2000) |
I. L2-4,T4Introduction 73 II. L2-4,T4Overview, Background, and Context 75 A. L3-4,T4U.S. Legal Culture 75. B. L3-4,T4International and Domestic Scrutiny of Human Rights Violations--A Case Study of Women in the Michigan Prison System 79. C. L3-4,T4Who Are These Humans Whose Rights We Are Reviewing? 84. D. L3-4,T4A Brief History of U.S. Women's...; Search Snippet: ...Protections under Domestic Civil Rights Law--a Case Study of Women in United States Prisons Martin A. Geer [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Robin Appleberry |
It's a Woman Thing: Sex, Status, and Human Rights in the Tobacco Epidemic |
15 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 312 (2000) |
Although the tobacco industry has be the subject of countless headlines in recent years, few voices describe the subject as an issue of human rights, much less one of women's rights. The vocabulary of human rights commonly is limited to torture, detention, or brutal physical violation. At the same time, tobacco policy is considered a matter of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Berkeley Women's Law Journal 2000 Recent Developments It's a Woman Thing: Sex, Status, and Human Rights in the Tobacco Epidemic... |
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| Griselda Vega |
Maquiladora's Lost Women: the Killing Fields of Mexico?are Nafta and Naalc Providing the Needed Protection? |
4 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 137 (Fall 2000) |
I. Introduction II. NAFTA and NAALC'S History A. NAALC's Purpose B. NAALC's Tripartite System III. The Maquiladora Murders IV. NAALC and the Maquiladora Murders A. Child Labor Claim B. Claim for Failure to Maintain Occupational and Health Norms V. Solutions? A. Mexico's History of Noncompliance B. Mexico's Labor System and NAALC C. Profit--The...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Race and Justice Fall 2000 Student Note Maquiladora's Lost Women: the Killing Fields of Mexico?are Nafta and Naalc Providing... |
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| Elizabeth Chambliss , Christopher Uggen |
Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy |
25 Law and Social Inquiry 41 (Winter, 2000) |
This paper tests the effects of minority partner representation on minority associate representation in a sample of 97 law firms from 1980 to 1990. We perform separate analyses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, and we consider both within-group and cross-group effects. We find that minority partner representation has a...; Search Snippet: ...Social Inquiry Law and Social Inquiry Winter, 2000 Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy Elizabeth Chambliss [Fna1... |
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Multiple Groups |
| Isabelle Talleyrand |
Military Prostitution: How the Authorities Worldwide Aid and Abet International Trafficking in Women |
27 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 151 (Winter 2000) |
There is considerable evidence of what is considered forced prostitution in the military. These offenses have occurred primarily by two methods: (1) as either a tactic of war by enemy forces, or (2) as a government-regulated industry to service troops for rest and relaxation. The former method involves situations where women are held captive...; Search Snippet: ...How the Authorities Worldwide Aid and Abet International Trafficking in Women [Fna1] Isabelle Talleyrand Copyright (C) 2000 Syracuse Journal of International... |
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| Racheal Turner |
Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, Edited by Barbara Ellen Smith. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 232 Pp. $59.50 Cloth, $19.95 Paper. |
15 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 359 (2000) |
From Gone with the Wind to Uncle Tom's Cabin and from the Ku Klux Klan to lunch counter sit-ins, images of the American South have been burned into our collective memory. Whether it is being romanticized or criticized, the distinct impression the South has made on American history cannot be erased. The South's slave-based agricultural economy led...; Search Snippet: ...Women's Law Journal 2000 Books Received Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, Edited by Barbara Ellen... |
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| Sally F. Goldfarb |
No Civilized System of Justice: the Fate of the Violence Against Women Act |
102 West Virginia Law Review 499 (Spring 2000) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 500 II. THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT: A LEGAL MILESTONE. 504 III. OF ALCHEMY AND MYTH-MAKING: THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT, FAMILY LAW, AND FEDERALISM. 510 A. Judicial Alchemy: How a Civil Rights Statute Became Family Law. 510 B. Judicial Myth-Making: Family Law As Not Federal In Nature. 515 C. United States v. Morrison and...; Search Snippet: ...Civilized System of Justice: the Fate of the Violence Against Women Act Sally F. Goldfarb [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 West Virginia... |
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| Rosemary B. Quigley |
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. By Linda K. Kerber. New York: Hill and Wang. 1998. Pp. Xxiv, 405. $25. |
98 Michigan Law Review 1822 (May, 2000) |
I remember the impotence I felt on the eve of the Gulf War in January 1991. No one could have known at that moment what a brief conflict it would be. We had every reason to believe that the Middle East would be hurled into turmoil. And if protracted war ensued, a draft would surely follow. I watched my college boyfriend sink into despair, with the...; Search Snippet: ...Because We Love You No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. By Linda K. Kerber. New... |
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| Rashmi Goel , Visiting Associate Professor of Law University of Tulsa College of Law |
No Women at the Center: the Use of the Canadian Sentencing Circle in Domestic Violence Cases |
15 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 293 (Fall 2000) |
Introduction. 294 Part I: The Colonial Legacy - Policies Responsible for Aboriginal Domestic Violence. 296 A. Policies to Assimilate Aboriginal Peoples. 302 B. Policies That Upset the Traditional Intergenerational Flow of Values and Teachings. 306 C. Policies That Diminish the Status of Women. 309 Part II: The Sentencing Circle. 313 Part III: The...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Wisconsin Women's Law Journal Fall 2000 Article No Women at the Center: the Use of the Canadian Sentencing Circle... |
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| Maria Grahn-Farley |
Not for Sale! Race & Gender Identity in Post-colonial Europe |
17 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 271 (Symposium, 2000) |
I am not for sale! What is it about this short phrase that is so difficult to understand? It does not matter whether I am in Sweden, France or Germany. It does not matter whether I say it in Swedish, French, German, or English. What is it in the hearts and minds of these European-looking men that makes it so difficult for them, if not impossible,...; Search Snippet: ...Of Human Rights Symposium, 2000 Essay Not for Sale! Race & Gender Identity in Post-colonial Europe Maria Grahn-farley [Fnd1] Copyright... |
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Panel Three: New Directions in Feminist Legal Theory |
49 American University Law Review 943 (April, 2000) |
SPEAKERS: JOAN WILLIAMS American University Washington College of Law PANELISTS: JAMIE BOYLE, FACILITATOR American University Washington College of Law ADRIENNE DAVIS American University Washington College of Law MARTHA ERTMAN University of Michigan Law School NANCY POLIKOFF American University Washington College of Law KATHARINE SILBAUGH Boston...; Search Snippet: ...To Do about it Article Panel Three: New Directions in Feminist Legal Theory Copyright (C) 2000 American University Law Review Speakers... |
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| Kathryn L. Moore |
Partial Privatization of Social Security: Assessing its Effect on Women, Minorities, and Lower-income Workers |
65 Missouri Law Review 341 (Spring, 2000) |
C1-5Table of Contents I. L2-4Introduction 342 II. L2-4How Partial Privatization Differs from the Current System 346 A. L3-4Investment Risk 347 B. L3-4Pre-funding of Benefits 348 III. L2-4Effect of Partial Privatization on At-Risk Beneficiaries 352 A. L3-4Investment Risk 353 1. Investment Experience. 354 2. Risk Aversion. 357 3. Investment...; Search Snippet: ...Articles Partial Privatization of Social Security: Assessing its Effect on Women, Minorities, and Lower-income Workers Kathryn L. Moore [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Naomi Cahn |
Policing Women: Moral Arguments and the Dilemmas of Criminalization |
49 DePaul Law Review 817 (Spring 2000) |
This essay concerns the peculiar dilemmas of criminalization for women. Women, and I am deliberately essentializing here, are constantly policed, in ways ranging from the monitoring of motherhood to the criminalization of prostitution. This policing may be through the criminal law, civil law, or it may be done more subtly through cultural attitudes...; Search Snippet: ...Divides: a Challegen to Unify Anti-subordination Theories Article Policing Women: Moral Arguments and the Dilemmas of Criminalization Naomi Cahn [Fna1... |
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| William C. Kidder |
Portia Denied : Unmasking Gender Bias on the Lsat and its Relationship to Racial Diversity in Legal Education |
12 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism Feminism 1 (2000) |
At nearly every stage of their development women attorneys incorrectly believed that once they themselves had proven their competence, acceptance for women in the next generation would be assured. . . . What they failed to realize . . . was that they long ago had proven their competence and that there really were unspoken, undefined, invisible...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Feminism 2000 Article Portia Denied [Fn1] : Unmasking Gender Bias on the Lsat and its Relationship to Racial Diversity... |
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8 Buffalo Women's Law Journal 5 (1999-2000) |
Erie County Family Court Judge Marjorie Creola Mix was elected in 1993, after serving as Hearing Examiner in that Court since 1988. After a career in higher education Judge Mix engaged in private law practice and consulted in the public sector. She holds a Ph.D. and has served in various teaching and administrative positions with the State...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Buffalo Women's Law Journal 1999-2000 Remarks at Women's Conference Luncheon Copyright © 2000 by State University of New York... |
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Report of the First Circuit |
9 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 173 (Spring, 2000) |
L1-6,T1Steering Committee. .178 L1-6,T1Gender Bias Task Force. .178 L1-6,T1Race and Ethnic Bias Task Force. .178 L1-6,T1Acknowledgments. .179 L1-6,T1Executive Summary. .180 L1-6,T1Introduction. .184 A. L3-6,T3Preface. .184 B. L3-6,T3Background. .184 C. L3-6,T3Research Methods. .187 1. L4-6,T4Court Employees. .188 2. L4-6,T4Court Users. .189 3....; Search Snippet: ...Journal Spring, 2000 Special Report Report of the First Circuit Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias Task Forces Copyright (C) 2000 By... |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Resisting Essentialism and Hierarchy: a Critique of Work/family Strategies for Women Lawyers |
16 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 185 (Spring, 2000) |
One ought to struggle for its own sake. One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female. --Eleanor Holmes Norton I feel a certain sense of discomfort talking about women, work, and family from the perspective of the legal profession. Part of my discomfort rests on the comparison of women...; Search Snippet: ...Essentialism and Hierarchy: a Critique of Work/family Strategies for Women Lawyers Nancy E. Dowd [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 President And... |
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| Patricia Cole and Sarah M. Buel |
Safety and Financial Security for Battered Women: Necessary Steps for Transitioning from Welfare to Work |
7 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 307 (Summer, 2000) |
In Safety and Financial Security for Battered Women, Patricia Cole and Sarah M. Buel discuss, with a reliance on anecdotal evidence, family violence and its impact upon the transition from welfare to work under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program established by the 1996 welfare reform. This Briefing Paper highlights many aspects of...; Search Snippet: ...2000 Symposium Briefing Papers Safety and Financial Security for Battered Women: Necessary Steps for Transitioning from Welfare to Work Patricia Cole... |
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| Donna Coker |
Shifting Power for Battered Women: Law, Material Resources, and Poor Women of Color |
33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1009 (Summer, 2000) |
LatCrit Theory invites scholarship that centers the experiences of Latinas/os while tying those experiences to the project of social justice for all. This Essay treats as central the experiences of Latinas and other women of color who are battered by intimate partners and suggests a test for evaluating anti-domestic violence measures that builds on...; Search Snippet: ...Hope in Latcrit Theory and Praxis Shifting Power for Battered Women: Law, Material Resources, and Poor Women of Color Donna Coker [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 by Regents... |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Ruth Lynch Buchwalter |
Should 1 + 1 = 2? Does the Structure of Federal Income Tax Expenditures for Higher Education Disadvantage Women and Low-income Individuals? |
22 Women's Rights Law Reporter 77 (Fall/Winter 2000) |
Women, especially single mothers, have lower incomes and need higher education more to achieve income levels comparable to men's. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 provided four new programs to help Americans pay for higher education: the Hope Scholarship Credit, the Lifetime Learning Credit, the deduction for qualified higher education interest...; Search Snippet: ...Structure of Federal Income Tax Expenditures for Higher Education Disadvantage Women and Low-income Individuals? Ruth Lynch Buchwalter [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Adrienne D. Davis |
Straightening it Out: Joan Williams on Unbending Gender |
49 American University Law Review 823 (April, 2000) |
As most men and women acknowledge, gender is a battleground. Most of us are fairly clear on biological sex: who bears children, who ejaculates sperm, even whose (big) hands might open a stuck jar and whose (smaller ones) could pull that cufflink out of the garbage disposal. What remains less clear is how social gender roles flow from this: Does...; Search Snippet: ...About It. Foreword Straightening it Out: Joan Williams on Unbending Gender Adrienne D. Davis [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 American University Law... |
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| Melissa Cole |
Struggling to Enjoy Ourselves or Enjoying the Struggle? One Perspective from the Newest Generation of Women Law Professors |
10 UCLA Women's Law Journal 321 (Spring 2000) |
To a new woman law professor, the continued struggle of her mentors is at first puzzling. Law schools appear to have changed significantly in the decade or so since the newest generation of women law professors were students. Women have attained greater representation, both in the student bodies and on faculties. Courses emphasizing gender issues...; Search Snippet: ...Enjoying the Struggle? One Perspective from the Newest Generation of Women Law Professors Melissa Cole [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 Regents Of... |
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| Melissa A. Childs |
The Changing Face of Unions: What Women Want from Employers |
12 DePaul Business Law Journal 381 (Fall/Spring, 1999/2000) |
I. Introduction. 383 II. Background. 385 A. The Labor Force Participation Rate of Women Historically. 385 B. Women and Unions Then and Now. 388 III. Inadequacies of the National Labor Relations Act. 393 A. Decisions Regarding Mandatory Subjects of Collective Bargaining. 396 B. Women's Issues Should be Mandatory Subjects of Collective Bargaining....; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 1999/2000 Comment the Changing Face of Unions: What Women Want from Employers Melissa A. Childs [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000... |
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| Marina Angel |
The Glass Ceiling for Women in Legal Education: Contract Positions and the Death of Tenure |
50 Journal of Legal Education 1 (March, 2000) |
Law schools are organized hierarchically, even if some of us would prefer a more equitable structure. Power, prestige, and money are determined by status within the law school hierarchy. My 1988 study of women in legal education showed that the status of women was gradually improving. On the surface, it still appears that there has been constant...; Search Snippet: ...Legal Education March, 2000 General Articles the Glass Ceiling for Women in Legal Education: Contract Positions and the Death of Tenure... |
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| Shana W. Chen |
The Immigrant Women of the Violence Against Women Act: the Role of the Asian American Consciousness in the Legislative Process |
1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 823 (Summer, 2000) |
Charlie informed his wife, Debbie, whom he regularly abused, that he was seeing another woman and that he wanted Debbie and their two children to live with him and his new girlfriend. On one occasion, Charlie beat Debbie severely and tied her to a bed. The children were the ones who found and untied her. As a result of the incident, Debbie had cuts...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender and the Law Summer, 2000 Note the Immigrant Women of the Violence Against Women Act: the Role of the Asian American Consciousness in the Legislative Process Shana W. Chen [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Martin E. Veinsreideris |
The Prospective Effects of Modifying Existing Law to Accommodate Preemptive Self-defense by Battered Women |
149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 613 (December, 2000) |
The acceptance of violence between private citizens in a free society, while morally repugnant, is seemingly necessary. The coexistence of laws punishing for murder and absolving absolutely for self-defense points to a tension between values that society holds as sacred. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than in the debate over the concept of...; Search Snippet: ...Modifying Existing Law to Accommodate Preemptive Self-defense by Battered Women Martin E. Veinsreideris [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2000 University of Pennsylvania... |
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| Janet Benshoof |
The Truth about Women's Rights |
6 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 423 (Winter, 2000) |
In their article, The Rise and Fall of Women's Rights: Have Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom Forfeited Victory?, the authors Lynne Marie Kohm and Colleen Holmes launch a wide-ranging attack on women's reproductive freedoms and target not only myself but topics as diverse as gay and lesbian rights, the Vagina Monologues, and sexual freedom...; Search Snippet: ...Women and the Law Winter, 2000 Essay the Truth about Women's Rights Janet Benshoof [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 College of William... |
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| Kyeyoung Park |
The Unspeakable Experiences of Korean Women under Japanese Rule |
21 Whittier Law Review 567 (Spring, 2000) |
The powers of the state used the police to trap and kidnap helpless women from Japan's colonial territories, and ship them off to the battlefield where they were held as prisoners and gang-raped for one to two years, and then abandoned by the retreating Japanese Army. Of the Koreans enslaved, half of the men and all 950 of the women died....; Search Snippet: ...Ii: the Search for Justice the Unspeakable Experiences of Korean Women under Japanese Rule Kyeyoung Park [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 By... |
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| Suzanne Sangree |
Title Ix and the Contact Sports Exemption: Gender Stereotypes in a Civil Rights Statute |
32 Connecticut Law Review 381 (Winter, 2000) |
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 guarantees that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. While widely considered a grand success, Title IX's...; Search Snippet: ...Review Winter, 2000 Title Ix and the Contact Sports Exemption: Gender Stereotypes in a Civil Rights Statute Suzanne Sangree [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Julie Goldscheid |
United States V. Morrison and the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: a Civil Rights Law Struck down in the Name of Federalism |
86 Cornell Law Review 109 (November, 2000) |
Introduction. 110 I. The VAWA Civil Rights Remedy's Legislative History. 112 A. Commerce Clause. 116 B. Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. 117 C. States' Support for the VAWA Civil Rights Remedy. 119 II. Christy Brzonkala's Claims. 120 III. The Morrison Decision. 122 A. The Court's Commerce Clause Analysis. 122 B. The Court's Section 5...; Search Snippet: ...Morrison and the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: a Civil Rights Law Struck down in the Name... |
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| Sandra Benlevy |
Venus and Mars in the Jury Deliberation Room: Exploring the Differences That Exist among Male and Female Jurors During the Deliberation Process |
9 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 445 (Spring 2000) |
[T]he two sexes are not fungible; a community made up exclusively of one is different from a community composed of both . . . . Despite the Court's assertion in 1946 that the two sexes are not fungible, approximately fifty years later, the Supreme Court in J.E.B. v. Alabama failed to acknowledge the existence of gender differences when it held...; Search Snippet: ...Deliberation Room: Exploring the Differences That Exist among Male and Female Jurors During the Deliberation Process Sandra Benlevy [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol |
Vi. Law, Culture, and Equality - Human Rights' Influence on Domestic Norms: the Case of Women in the Americas |
13 Florida Journal of International Law 33 (Fall, 2000) |
This essay originated with a panel on Alternatives to the Regular Courts that took place during the first Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas conference sponsored by the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Some of the possible alternatives to the courts, in the trade field, that have been discussed include mediation, arbitration,...; Search Snippet: ...Equality Human Rights' Influence on Domestic Norms: the Case of Women in the Americas Berta Esperanza Hernández-truyol [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Sally F. Goldfarb |
Violence Against Women and the Persistence of Privacy |
61 Ohio State Law Journal 1 (2000) |
American law has long embraced a fundamental distinction between the public and private spheres. As a result, certain issues important to women, including domestic violence and sexual assault, have traditionally been deemed private and therefore exempt from legal scrutiny. Feminist scholars have critiqued two versions of the dichotomy between...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Ohio State Law Journal 2000 Articles Violence Against Women and the Persistence of Privacy Sally F. Goldfarb [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Elvia R. Arriola |
Voices from the Barbed Wires of Despair: Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical Legal Theory, and Gender at the U.s.-mexico Border |
49 DePaul Law Review 729 (Spring 2000) |
I. Introduction. 731 II. La Frontera: The Legal, Political, and Historical Context of the U.S.-Mexico Border, INS Border Patrol, Drug Enforcement, and NAFTA. 741 A. A Brief History of the Border and the Attraction to El Norte. 742 B. Open or Closed? Contemporary Border Facts and Attitudes. 743 C. Migrants, Workers, Refugees and Border Cops in a...; Search Snippet: ...Subordination Theories Article Voices from the Barbed Wires of Despair: Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical Legal Theory, and Gender at the U.s.-mexico Border Elvia R. Arriola [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Emma Coleman Jordan, Mel Fowler-Green and Kathy Rodgers |
Welcoming Addresses and Overview of "To Promote the General Welfare: Ending Women's Poverty" |
7 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 193 (Summer, 2000) |
C1-3Contents I. Welcome Address of Professor Emma Coleman Jordan. 193 II. Welcome Address of Editor-in-Chief Mel Fowler-Green. 194 III. Symposium Overview of Kathy Rodgers. 194; Search Snippet: ...Addresses and Overview of to Promote the General Welfare: Ending Women's Poverty Emma Coleman Jordan Mel Fowler-green and Kathy Rodgers... |
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