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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Herma Hill Kay , Geraldine Sparrow |
Workshop on Judging: Does Gender Make a Difference? |
16 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Spring 2001) |
The legal profession was once entirely a man's field. Even now, in the United States and Canada, men dominate the law. When women sought entry into the field in the mid- to late nineteenth century, the initial response appeared to be that women lacked both the physical stamina demanded by a rigorous public profession and the mental capacity to...; Search Snippet: ...Boalt Hall), Spring Semester 2000 Introduction Workshop on Judging: Does Gender Make a Difference? Herma Hill Kay [Fna1] Geraldine Sparrow [Fnaa1... |
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| Suzanne A. Kim |
Yellow Skin, "White" Masks: Asian American "Impersonations" of Whiteness and the Feminist Critique of Liberal Equality |
8 Asian Law Journal 89 (May, 2001) |
In two historical Supreme Court cases from the early part of the twentieth century, when only whites and blacks could be United States citizens, two Asian American immigrants made the startling move of claiming that they were white and, therefore, deserved to be naturalized. The two petitioners - Takao Ozawa and Baghat Singh Thind - claimed they...; Search Snippet: ...Asian Law Journal May, 2001 Comment Yellow Skin, White Masks: Asian American Impersonations of Whiteness and the Feminist Critique of Liberal Equality [Fna1] Suzanne A. Kim [Fnd1] Copyright... |
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100 Women and Minority Lawyers' Awards |
36-JAN Arizona Attorney Att'y 6 (January, 2000) |
It is not the critic who counts; not the person who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends themselves in worthy cause....; Search Snippet: ...Attorney Arizona Attorney January, 2000 Department Guest President's Message 100 Women and Minority Lawyers' Awards Judge Michael B. Ryan Patience T... |
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| Sharan K. Suri |
A Matter of Principle and Consistency: Understanding the Battered Woman and Cultural Defenses |
7 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 107 (2000) |
I. The Defenses111 A. The Battered Woman Syndrome Defense111 B. The Cultural Defense117 II. The Two Defenses Are the Same120 A. Criticisms of the Cultural Defense122 B. Criticisms of the Battered Woman Syndrome Defense126 C. The Cultural and Battered Woman Syndrome Defenses Compared131 III. Implications of The Comparison134 Conclusion138; Search Snippet: ...Note a Matter of Principle and Consistency: Understanding the Battered Woman and Cultural Defenses Sharan K. Suri [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000... |
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| Renee Romkens |
Ambiguous Responsibilities: Law and Conflicting Expert Testimony on the Abused Woman Who Shot Her Sleeping Husband |
25 Law and Social Inquiry 355 (Spring, 2000) |
Truth is a thing of this world: It is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. --Michel Foucault 1977 Law is less than ever the exclusive domain of legal experts. However, scientific experts often disagree on what constitutes scientifically reliable and valid knowledge. In sociolegal debates about whether law or science is...; Search Snippet: ...Ambiguous Responsibilities: Law and Conflicting Expert Testimony on the Abused Woman Who Shot Her Sleeping Husband Renee Romkens [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Christine Coyne |
Anjelino V. New York Times Co.: Granting Men Standing to Fight Against Injuries Received as a Result of Sexual Discrimination Towards Female Co-workers |
45 Villanova Law Review 651 (2000) |
Recognizing the prevalence of discriminatory employment practices in the United States, Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). Title VII provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or . . . to discriminate against any...; Search Snippet: ...Against Injuries Received as a Result of Sexual Discrimination Towards Female Co-workers Christine Coyne Copyright (C) 2000 Villanova University; Christine... |
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| David Peterson del Mar |
Anne M. Butler, Gender Justice in the America West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. Xvii + 262. $29.95 (Isbn 0-252-02281-5) |
18 Law and History Review 232 (Spring, 2000) |
This is a good book in some important respects and a weak one in others. It is thoroughly researched. According to her bibliography, Butler examined manuscripts in twenty-three archives, as well as a substantial amount of published but obscure material. The result is a finely grained history of women's treatment in western penitentiaries. The...; Search Snippet: ...And History Review Spring, 2000 Book Reviews Anne M. Butler, Gender Justice in the America West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997... |
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| Deborah Jones Merritt |
Are Women Stuck on the Academic Ladder? |
10 UCLA Women's Law Journal 241 (Spring 2000) |
Good morning, both here in Chicago and to those of you in New York and Washington. It was a great honor to be asked to speak at this conference and a delight to find so many friends in the audience. My job is to offer an empirical overview of women's status on law faculties, but I want to start with a few personal words. I think every female law...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Ucla Women's Law Journal Spring 2000 Symposium Are Women Stuck on the Academic Ladder? [Fna1] Deborah Jones Merritt [Fnaa1... |
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| Deborah Jones Merritt |
Are Women Stuck on the Academic Ladder? An Empirical Perspective |
10 UCLA Women's Law Journal 249 (Spring 2000) |
Feeling stuck is subjective; every woman experiences the job market differently. Despite the individuality of experience, this outline attempts to offer a somewhat global view of how men and women have fared in the legal academy. Sections I and II examine the experiences of law teachers who began their first nontenure-track law school position in...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Ucla Women's Law Journal Spring 2000 Symposium Are Women Stuck on the Academic Ladder? An Empirical Perspective [Fna1] Deborah... |
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| Cheryl Hanna |
Bad Girls and Good Sports: Some Reflections on Violent Female Juvenile Delinquents, Title Ix & the Promise of Girl Power |
27 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 667 (Summer 2000) |
There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was awful. It was a shocking crime. It was a Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco, a time when most teenagers are in school, but these two hoodlums were on the street and they had a plan. They...; Search Snippet: ...Constitution and Our Children in the New Millennium Article Bad Girls and Good Sports: Some Reflections on Violent Female Juvenile Delinquents, Title Ix & the Promise of Girl Power Cheryl Hanna [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 Hastings College Of... |
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| Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D. |
Blame, Retribution and Deterrence among Both Survivors and Perpetrators of Male Violence Against Women |
8 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 219 (Fall, 2000) |
The capacity to negotiate social contracts and develop effective responses to those who violate them is a universal pattern of behavior that has survived thousands of years of human evolution. Here, an evolutionary perspective is applied to analysis of violence against women focusing on concepts of social equity, retribution, and deterrence....; Search Snippet: ...Deterrence among Both Survivors and Perpetrators of Male Violence Against Women Aurelio José Figueredo , Ph.d. [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 by Virginia... |
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| Marilyn Yarbrough with Crystal Bennett |
Cassandra and the "Sistahs": the Peculiar Treatment of African American Women in the Myth of Women as Liars |
3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 625 (Spring 2000) |
I. Introduction II. Women as Liars A. Five Forms of the Female Liar in Sexual Harassment Suits B. Essentialism III. Common Stereotypes of African American Women A. Mammy, Sapphire, Jezebel and Their Sisters B. The Newest Sibling: Cassandra 1. Anita Hill 2. Others a. Tawana Brawley b. Desiree Washington c. Unnamed Sisters in Contexts Unrelated to...; Search Snippet: ...2000 Article Cassandra and the Sistahs: the Peculiar Treatment of African American Women in the Myth of Women as Liars Marilyn Yarbrough with Crystal Bennett [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Angela D. Hooton |
Constitutional Review of Affirmative Action Policies for Women of Color: a Hopeless Paradox? |
15 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 391 (Fall 2000) |
Over the course of recent history, affirmative action's distributive role has been redefined. America has moved from a society in which members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, presidents, and a substantial portion of the population believed in affirmative action as a necessary tool to eradicate the vestiges of discrimination to one that...; Search Snippet: ...Fall 2000 Article Constitutional Review of Affirmative Action Policies for Women of Color: a Hopeless Paradox? Angela D. Hooton [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| MYRNA S. RAEDER |
Creating Correctional Alternatives for Nonviolent Women Offenders and Their Children |
44 Saint Louis University Law Journal 377 (Spring 2000) |
In 1999, the explosion of the female correctional population finally began to attract significant public attention. A national news magazine published an investigative report about intergenerational crime committed by the daughters of female offenders. Nightline broadcast a series of programs that profiled female offenders, many of whom were...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Spring 2000 Sentencing Symposium Creating Correctional Alternatives for Nonviolent Women Offenders and Their Children Myrna S. Raeder [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Greta Rensenbrink |
David A.j. Richards, Women, Gays, and the Constitution: the Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. Xiv + 531. $65.00 Cloth; $22.00 Paper (Isbn 0-226-71206-0; 0-226-71207-9) |
18 Law and History Review 245 (Spring, 2000) |
In this densely argued text, David Richards develops what he terms moral slavery as a historical, philosophical, and legal concept. Deriving his understanding from the politics and philosophy of nineteenth-century abolition feminists, he defines moral slavery as the unjust degradation of all classes of persons from their status as bearers of...; Search Snippet: ...And History Review Spring, 2000 Book Reviews David A.j. Richards, Women, Gays, and the Constitution: the Grounds for Feminism and Gay... |
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| Melanie M. Lee |
Defining the Agenda: a New Struggle for African-american Women in the Fight for Reproductive Self-determination |
6 Washington and Lee Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal 87 (Spring, 2000) |
African American women must work for reproductive self-determination's classification as a human right. Without the ability to determine their reproductive destinies, women will never achieve an equal role in social, economic and political life and will continue to be politically subordinate to and economically dependent upon men. While feminist...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2000 Article Defining the Agenda: a New Struggle for African- American Women in the Fight for Reproductive Self-determination Melanie M. Lee... |
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| KATHLEEN AUERHAHN ; AND ELIZABETH DERMODY LEONARD |
Docile Bodies? Chemical Restraints and the Female Inmate |
90 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 599 (Winter 2000) |
We can influence others in two radically different ways--with the sword or the pen, the stick or the carrot. Coercion is the threat or use of force to compel another's submission. If it is legally authorized, we call it law enforcement; if it is not, we call it crime. Shunning coercion, we can employ verbal, sexual, financial and other...; Search Snippet: ...Criminology Winter 2000 Criminology Docile Bodies? Chemical Restraints and the Female Inmate Kathleen Auerhahn [Fna1] ; and Elizabeth Dermody Leonard [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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| Barbara Bennett Woodhouse |
Dred Scott's Daughters: Nineteenth Century Urban Girls at the Intersection of Race and Patriarchy |
48 Buffalo Law Review 669 (Fall 2000) |
[Dred Scott's daughters] were virtually free before, having achieved their freedom by their heels, what the more conscientious Dred could not secure by ten years of litigation.? Minors, male and female, are virtually invisible to history. Their names are rarely known, their stories are rarely told, and their perspectives are rarely explored. Yet a...; Search Snippet: ...Review Buffalo Law Review Fall 2000 Symposium Articles Dred Scott's Daughters: Nineteenth Century Urban Girls at the Intersection of Race and Patriarchy Barbara Bennett Woodhouse... |
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| Staci Jeanne Krupp |
Environmental Hazards: Assessing the Risk to Women |
12 Fordham Environmental Law Journal 111 (Fall 2000) |
Despite the fact that women are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards, governmental regulations provide women with little protection. Although federal environmental regulators use risk assessments as a tool to protect vulnerable populations, their value is questionable when it comes to protecting women's unique susceptibilities to...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Fall 2000 Article Environmental Hazards: Assessing the Risk to Women Staci Jeanne Krupp [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2000 Fordham University School... |
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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... |
2000 |
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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 ©... |
2000 |
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African/Black American |
| 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 ©... |
2000 |
Yes |
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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... |
2000 |
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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... |
2000 |
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