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| Paul Steven Miller |
Disability Civil Rights and a New Paradigm for the Twenty-first Century: the Expansion of Civil Rights Beyond Race, Gender, and Age |
1 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 511 (Fall, 1998) |
The struggle for equal opportunity and civil rights is etched in America's collective consciousness. Images of fire hoses aimed at peaceful protesters, lunch counter demonstrations, and women marching in the streets helped move this nation away from policies of Jim Crow and gender inequity in the workplace. American law and public policy finally...; Search Snippet: ...Twenty-first Century: the Expansion of Civil Rights Beyond Race, Gender, and Age Paul Steven Miller [Fnb1] Copyright (C) 1998 By... |
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| Zanita E. Fenton |
Domestic Violence in Black and White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes in Gender Violence |
8 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 (1998) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. StereotypesSex, Power, Gender, Race. 10 A. The Formation of Stereotypes. 10 B. Stereotypes Formed. 19 C. Domestic Violencea Point of Culmination. 26 D. The Persistence of StereotypesPerspective, Juries, and Justice (or Just Us). 31 III. Pitting Race Against GenderThe Choice. 37 A. The Dynamics of Power. 37 B. The...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 1998 Domestic Violence in Black and White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes in Gender Violence Zanita E. Fenton [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 by The... |
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| Sneha Barot |
Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. By Noël Sturgeon. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. Xii, 260. $70.00 (Cloth), $18.99 (Paper). |
30 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 417 (Fall-Winter 1997-1998) |
Noël Sturgeon's Ecofeminist Natures contains a critical analysis of the theory and practice of ecofeminism. This movement links elements of environmentalism and feminism, arguing that the patterns and beliefs that lead to gender, race, and class exploitation are similarly related to those which cause environmental degradation. Sturgeon attempts to...; Search Snippet: ...Politics Fall-winter 1997-1998 Book Annotations Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. By Noël Sturgeon. New York: Routledge... |
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| Cynthia A. Prado |
Effects of Gender Differences on Physician-assisted Suicide: Practice and Regulation |
8 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 101 (Fall, 1998) |
Many feminist critics of bioethics claim that bioethical discussions are almost always conducted with an androgynous patient in mind--rather, gender is out of mind. Professor of Law and Medicine, Susan M. Wolf describes this discussion as a focus on the genderless generic patient. Although discussions of genetic research, organ transplantation...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law and Women's Studies Fall, 1998 Article Effects of Gender Differences on Physician-assisted Suicide: Practice and Regulation Cynthia A... |
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| Judy Scales-Trent |
Equal Rights Advocates: Addressing the Legal Issues of Women of Color |
13 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 34 (1998) |
On February 21, 1991, reporters and television cameras crowded into a small conference room in San Francisco to hear an announcement by representatives of three local public interest law firms--Asian Law Caucus (ALC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), and Equal Rights Advocates (ERA). The media had come to hear about...; Search Snippet: ...Journal 1998 Equal Rights Advocates: Addressing the Legal Issues of Women of Color Judy Scales-trent [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 1998 By... |
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| Jane Maslow Cohen |
Equality for Girls and Other Women: the Built Architecture of the Purposive Life |
9 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 103 (Spring 1998) |
For reasons that stack into different sizes and shapes, American contributors to the current wave of feminist theory seem to be down, down, and further down on gender-related demands for equal justice. The positions that account for this trend vary from equality-criticism to equality-skepticism to equality-nihilism, whether or not the legality or...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues Spring 1998 Article Equality for Girls and Other Women: the Built Architecture of the Purposive Life Jane Maslow Cohen... |
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| Caryn Lerman Ph.D., Beth N. Peshkin M.S., Chanita Hughes Ph.D., Claudine Isaacs M.D. |
Family Disclosure in Genetic Testing for Cancer Susceptibility: Determinants and Consequences |
1 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 353 (1998) |
The isolation of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes has made it possible to identify women at increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer, thereby facilitating informed decisions about surveillance and cancer prevention options. Despite these potential medical benefits, the identification of carriers of deleterious mutations raises numerous psychological...; Search Snippet: ...That Patterns of Family Communication about Brca1 Testing Differ Between African American and Caucasian Women. [Fn31] in a Recent Study, Caucasian Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer Were Significantly More Likely than African American Women to Communicate about Genetic Testing with a Spouse and a Parent. [Fn32] Specifically, |
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| Laurie Schaffner |
Female Juvenile Delinquency: Sexual Solutions, Gender Bias, and Juvenile Justice |
9 Hastings Women's Law Journal 1 (Winter 1998) |
The beginning of delinquency in girls is usually an impulse to get amusement, adventure, pretty clothes, favorable notice, distinction, freedom in the larger world which presents so many allurements and comparisons. The cases which I have examined (about three thousand) show that sexual passion does not play an important role, for the girls have...; Search Snippet: ...Womens Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Winter 1998 Article Female Juvenile Delinquency: Sexual Solutions, Gender Bias, and Juvenile Justice Laurie Schaffner [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998... |
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| Cynthia Grant Bowman , Elizabeth M. Schneider |
Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, and the Legal Profession |
67 Fordham Law Review 249 (November, 1998) |
THIS essay addresses the interrelationship among feminist legal theory, feminist lawmaking, and the legal profession. We describe a complex interaction between theory and practice that has two main arenas: (1) the interaction between feminist legal theory and the development of feminist lawmaking and substantive law, and (2) the impact of...; Search Snippet: ...The Legal Profession: the Impact of Law and Legal Theory Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, and the Legal Profession Cynthia Grant Bowman [Fna1] Elizabeth... |
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| Lucie E. White |
Feminist Microenterprise: Vindicating the Rights of Women in the New Global Order? |
50 Maine Law Review 327 (1998) |
The subject of this symposium is Law, Feminism & the 21st Century. What are the greatest challenges for feminism in the coming century and how can the law help to meet them? I want to begin this essay by asking that question from two radically different vantage points. The first is very far removed from the usual starting point for feminist...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 1998 Symposium: Law, Feminism & the Twenty-first Century Feminist Microenterprise: Vindicating the Rights of Women in the New Global Order? Lucie E. White [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Drucilla Cornell |
Freedom's Conscience |
24 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 149 (1998) |
In his masterful work, Women, Gays, and the Constitution, David Richards proposes a moral interpretation of the nineteenth century Reconstruction Amendments. This reading is inspired by abolitionist feminism, Richards' name for the philosophy developed by men and women who extended their opposition to slavery into a fight against all forms of...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law and Social Change 1998 Book Review Freedom's Conscience Women, Gays, and the Constitution. By David Richards. Chicago, Illinois: University... |
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| Julie Yuki Ralston |
Geishas, Gays and Grunts: What the Exploitation of Asian Pacific Women Reveals about Military Culture and the Legal Ban on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Service Members |
16 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 661 (Summer 1998) |
In September 1995, two U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy seaman gang-raped a twelve-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa, Japan, where the men were stationed. This rape brought international attention to the extensive U.S. military presence in the Pacific, including Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and until recently, the Philippines. Also, the rape initially...; Search Snippet: ...Geishas, Gays and Grunts: What the Exploitation of Asian Pacific Women Reveals about Military Culture and the Legal Ban on Lesbian... |
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| Melissa E. Fraser |
Gender Inequality in in Vitro Fertilization: Controlling Women's Reproductive Autonomy |
2 New York City Law Review 183 (Summer, 1998) |
This Note attempts to add to those voices currently critiquing the new reproductive technologies by suggesting a two-step analysis which (1) analyzes how a specific reproductive technology can create inequitable power structures for women who turn to it, and (2) places that reproductive technology within a larger pattern of controlling all women's...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review New York City Law Review Summer, 1998 Note Gender Inequality in in Vitro Fertilization: Controlling Women's Reproductive Autonomy Melissa E. Fraser [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 New... |
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| Hope Lewis |
Global Intersections: Critical Race Feminist Human Rights and Inter/national Black Women |
50 Maine Law Review 309 (1998) |
My life stories influence my perspective, a perspective unable to function within a single paradigm because I am too many things at one time. Say, I remember, when we used to sit in a government yard in Brooklyn . As an African American feminist law professor who is visually impaired and the daughter of immigrants, I am often torn as to which...; Search Snippet: ...Law, Feminism & the Twenty-first Century Global Intersections: Critical Race Feminist Human Rights and Inter/national Black Women Hope Lewis [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 by the University Of... |
1998 |
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| Sarah Berger, Angela Olivia Burton, Peggy Cooper Davis, Elizabeth Ehrenfest Steinglass, and Robert Levy |
Hey! There's Ladies Here!! |
73 New York University Law Review 1022 (June, 1998) |
When the 2,000 Year Old Man was asked about the origins of sex, he recalled Bernie's Discovery: One morning, the 2,000 Year Old Man said, Bernie woke up smiling, and he said, Hey! There's ladies here!! There have been significant numbers of ladies in law school classrooms for more than thirty years. Although the Supreme Court held in 1873...; Search Snippet: ...1998 Essay Hey! There's Ladies Here!! Reflections On: Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change by Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, and Jane Balin Women in Legal Education: a Comparison of the Law School Performance and Law School Experiences of Women and Men by Linda F. Wightman, Law School Admission |
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| Jennifer A. des Groseilliers |
In re Kasinga: "'When the Axe Came into the Forest, the Trees Said the Handle Is One of Us."' |
24 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil confinement 89 (Winter, 1998) |
The memory of their screams calling for mercy, gasping for breath, pleading that those parts of their bodies that it pleases God to give them be spared. I remember the fearful look in their eyes when I led them to the toilet, I want to, but I can't. Why Mum? Why did you let them do this to me? Those words continue to haunt me. My blood runs cold...; Search Snippet: ...Of Joy Tells the Story of Tashi, a Tribal African Woman, Who Followed Her Tribal Custom and Voluntarily Submitted to the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation (Fgm). See Generally Id Alice Walker Has Worked... |
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| Tonya M. Evans |
In the Title Ix Race Toward Gender Equity , the Black Female Athlete Is Left to Finish Last: the Lack of Access for the "Invisible Woman." |
42 Howard Law Journal 105 (Fall, 1998) |
Although each of us is defined by race and gender, those of us who are neither white nor male often experience invisibility as a result of our dual subordinate status.... Black women have been disproportionately located at the lower end of the economic hierarchy and, therefore, have been unable to afford private golf, swimming, or tennis lessons....; Search Snippet: ...Journal Fall, 1998 Comment in the Title Ix Race Toward Gender Equity [Fn1] , the Black Female Athlete Is Left to Finish Last: the Lack of Access for the Invisible Woman. [Fn2] Tonya M. Evans [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Tonya M... |
1998 |
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| Margo Schlanger |
Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930 |
21 Harvard Women's Law Journal 79 (Spring, 1998) |
How did early American tort law treat women? How were they expected to behave, and how were others expected to behave towards them? What gender differences mattered, and how did courts deal with those differences? These are the issues this Article explores. My aim is to illuminate the common law of torts and its relation to and with ideas about...; Search Snippet: ...Womens Law Journal Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1998 Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930 Margo Schlanger [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Peter Kwan |
Invention, Inversion and Intervention: the Oriental Woman in the World of Suzie Wong, M. Butterfly, and the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
5 Asian Law Journal 99 (May, 1998) |
The construction of the Oriental Woman--a fictional character of the Western imagination--can be dissected, according to Professor Kwan, by means of a cosynthetic analysis. The cosynthetic analysis is a means of understanding how certain stereotypes emerge out of a confluence of racial, sexual, gender, class and other identities. These identities...; Search Snippet: ...Journal May, 1998 Article Invention, Inversion and Intervention: the Oriental Woman in the World of Suzie Wong, M. Butterfly, and The... |
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| Cassandra Shaylor |
It's like Living in a Black Hole: Women of Color and Solitary Confinement in the Prison Industrial Complex |
24 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 385 (Summer, 1998) |
Angela Tucker awoke at six a.m. cowering in the corner of her cell, shaking uncontrollably, unable to breathe. A fifty-four year old African-American woman, Tucker suffers from hypertension, diabetes, and asthma. Though she was confined alone in this cold, dark cell for six months, she finally had reached her limit. She repeatedly called for guards...; Search Snippet: ...Women in Prison It's like Living in a Black Hole: Women of Color and Solitary Confinement in the Prison Industrial Complex... |
1998 |
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| Amy C. Christian |
Joint and Several Liability and the Joint Return: its Implications for Women |
66 University of Cincinnati Law Review 535 (Winter 1998) |
For sixty years the Internal Revenue Code has imposed joint and several liability on taxpayers who file joint returns a filing status available only to married couples. Of course, under joint and several liability, each spouse is responsible for any tax deficiency attributable to either spouse. The government need not seek payment from the spouse...; Search Snippet: ...And Several Liability and the Joint Return: its Implications for Women Amy C. Christian [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 University of Cincinnati... |
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| Paula Gaber |
Just Trying to Be Human in this Place: the Legal Education of Twenty Women |
10 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 165 (1998) |
Coming back after fifteen years out of school, I sort of thought it would be the brave new world of gender rights and racial equality; that it was a politically correct world and that, at least educationally, that would be how things would operate. During my second semester of law school, I was telling a second-year friend of mine about how unhappy...; Search Snippet: ...Be Human in this Place: the Legal Education of Twenty Women Paula Gaber [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 1998 Paula Gaber Westlaw Lawprac... |
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| Toni J. Ellington,, Sylvia K. Higashi, Jayna K. Kim,, Mark M. Murakami |
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gender Discrimination |
20 University of Hawaii Law Review 699 (Winter, 1998) |
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Ginsburg) began arguing that the strict scrutiny standard should be applied to gender discrimination cases when she was a law professor at Columbia University. Women's rights groups from all camps hoped she would continue to argue for strict scrutiny in gender discrimination cases once she was appointed as...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1998 December 1998 Comments Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gender Discrimination Toni J. Ellington Sylvia K. Higashi Jayna K. Kim... |
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| Jason M. Skaggs |
Justifying Gender-based Affirmative Action under United States V. Virginia's "Exceedingly Persuasive Justification" Standard |
86 California Law Review 1169 (October, 1998) |
While affirmative action has been a hot topic over the course of the past decade, much of the commentary and litigation associated with the issue has involved race-based programs. In fact, the Supreme Court has never examined a gender-based affirmative action program under the Equal Protection Clause. This lack of guidance has resulted in a split...; Search Snippet: ...California Law Review California Law Review October, 1998 Article Justifying Gender-based Affirmative Action under United States V. Virginia's Exceedingly Persuasive... |
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| Angela Mae Kupenda |
Law, Life, and Literature: a Critical Reflection of Life and Literature to Illuminate How Laws of Domestic Violence, Race, and Class Bind Black Women Based on Alice Walker's Book the Third Life of Grange Copeland |
42 Howard Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 1998) |
[A woman] who is sensitive and accustomed to an environment of breeding, education or culture might be severely affected and harmed by [domestic abuse] considered minor by one hardened by harsh treatment . . . . Dat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to have de best places ... and ain't I a...; Search Snippet: ...How Laws of Domestic Violence, Race, and Class Bind Black Women Based on Alice Walker's Book the Third Life of Grange... |
1998 |
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| Pemela Scheininger |
Legal Separateness, Private Connectedness: an Impediment to Gender Equality in the Family |
31 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 283 (Spring, 1998) |
The standards of the law are standards of general application. The law takes no account of the infinite varieties of temperament, intellect, and education which make the internal character of a given act so different in different men. Formal legal systems are characterized by standards of general application, not individualized rules. Their laws...; Search Snippet: ...Problems Spring, 1998 Legal Separateness, Private Connectedness: an Impediment to Gender Equality in the Family Pemela Scheininger [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998... |
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| L. Mara Dodge |
Mary E. Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. |
42 American Journal of Legal History 100 (January, 1998) |
Mary E. Odem offers a wonderfully rich and vibrant account of the complex relationships between moral reformers, state officials, adolescent girls, and their working-class families. Although she highlights the activities of female moral reformers, each of these groups is conceived as fully active protagonists in the cultural struggles over...; Search Snippet: ...Legal History January, 1998 Book Review Mary E. Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University... |
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| Lori Tripoli |
More than You'd Think. Not as Many as You'd Hope Partnership Chances Increase for Women at Major Firms, Survey Data Shows |
17 No. 9 Of Counsel Counsel 7 (5/4/1998) |
On the one hand, the news is sort of good: A glance at the numbers of women elevated to partnership status last year shows the glass ceiling has shattered at some large national firms. In fact, women are making partner, and women partners are attaining managerial positions, in fairly impressive numbers, according to data gathered for the annual Of...; Search Snippet: ...Not as Many as You'd Hope Partnership Chances Increase for Women at Major Firms, Survey Data Shows Lori Tripoli Copyright ©... |
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| Devon W. Carbado |
Motherhood and Work in Cultural Context: One Woman's Patriarchal Bargain |
21 Harvard Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Spring, 1998) |
Of course, your mother is not only that woman whose womb formed and released you . But naming your own mother (or her equivalent) enables people to place you precisely within the universal web of your life, in each of its dimensions: cultural, spiritual, personal, and historical. Paula Gunn Allen, Who Is Your Mother? My mother mothered. That is...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 1998 Essays Motherhood and Work in Cultural Context: One Woman's Patriarchal Bargain [Fna1] Devon W. Carbado [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1998... |
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| Michele M. Contreras |
New York's Mandatory Hiv Testing of Newborns: a Positive Step Which Results in Negative Consequences for Women and Their Children |
20 Women's Rights Law Reporter 21 (Fall-Winter 1998) |
Imagine the tragedy of a mother who rushes her sick infant to the hospital because the child is suffering from chest congestion and fever and learns that her child is infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Imagine the greater tragedy when the mother also learns that,...; Search Snippet: ...Newborns: a Positive Step Which Results in Negative Consequences for Women and Their Children Michele M. Contreras [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998... |
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| Aviva Orenstein |
No Bad Men!: a Feminist Analysis of Character Evidence in Rape Trials |
49 Hastings Law Journal 663 (March, 1998) |
Introduction. 664 I. The Current State of Character Evidence. 668 A. Doctrine. 668 B. Reasons Behind the Rules. 669 II. The Challenge of Rape Trials: A Feminist View. 672 A. Denial of Rape. 672 B. The Cultural Paradigm. 677 (1)Cultural Profile of the Rapist. 678 (2)Cultural Profile of the Survivor. 679 C. The Paradigm in Action. 682 III. Evaluating...; Search Snippet: ...Law Panel 6 - Character Evidence Revisited No Bad Men!: a Feminist Analysis of Character Evidence in Rape Trials Aviva Orenstein [Fna1... |
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| Karen B. Brown |
Not Color- or Gender-neutral: New Tax Treatment of Employment Discrimination Damages |
7 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 223 (Spring 1998) |
To support a host of tax give aways offered as a palliative to small businesses required to pay a higher minimum wage, Congress eliminated a venerated Internal Revenue Code (IRC) provision that supported exclusion from gross income of damages received on account of race- and gender-based employment discrimination. Congress' 1996 amendment of IRC...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Women's Studies Spring 1998 Article Not Color- or Gender-neutral: New Tax Treatment of Employment Discrimination Damages [Fnd1] Karen... |
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| Katharine K. Baker |
Property Rules Meet Feminist Needs: Respecting Autonomy by Valuing Connection |
59 Ohio State Law Journal 1523 (1998) |
In this Article, Professor Baker analyzes how and why the law protects both horizontal (marital) and vertical (parent/child) relationships. In doing so, she suggests that, although the reasons to protect relationships are comparable in both the horizontal and vertical contexts, the law is much more willing to interfere with vertical relationships,...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Ohio State Law Journal 1998 Property Rules Meet Feminist Needs: Respecting Autonomy by Valuing Connection Katharine K. Baker [Fna1... |
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| Angela Y. Davis |
Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women |
24 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 339 (Summer, 1998) |
Over the last twenty-five years, feminist research and activism on sexual assault and domestic violence have generated campaigns and services on local, national and international levels and an increasingly popular culture of resistance which has helped to unveil the global pandemic of violence against women. At the same time, research and activism...; Search Snippet: ...Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women Angela Y. Davis Copyright (C) 1998 by the New England... |
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| Susan Sturm |
Race, Gender, and the Law in the Twenty-first Century Workplace: Some Preliminary Observations |
1 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 639 (Fall, 1998) |
We are at an important juncture in the development of race and gender policy in this country. The prevailing regulatory framework erected in the 1960s and 1970s to address discrimination in the workplace faces fundamental challenges. At a time when the United States population is becoming increasingly diverse, traditional methods of considering...; Search Snippet: ...Rethinking Law in the Twenty-first Century Workplace Essay Race, Gender, and the Law in the Twenty-first Century Workplace: Some... |
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| Robert M. Cearley, Jr. |
Racial and Gender Bias - Leading by Example |
33-FALL Arkansas Lawyer 2 (Fall, 1998) |
In 1962 an African-American man was convicted of contempt for refusing to sit in the section of the courtroom reserved for Negroes. The conviction was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion. Johnson v. Virginia, 373 U.S. 61 (1963). The next year an African-American female witness was held in contempt for refusing to answer...; Search Snippet: ...Arkansas Lawyer Arkansas Lawyer Fall, 1998 President's Report Racial and Gender Bias - Leading by Example Robert M. Cearley, Jr. [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Frances Mitchell Ross |
Reforming the Bar: Women and the Arkansas Legal Profession |
20 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal 869 (Summer, 1998) |
Gateway to prominence in the professional world and springboard to careers in politics, the judiciary, business, and more, the law in American history has been a profession linked to power and influence. But while the legal profession has opened these doors for its favorite sons, until recent decades groups such as women, African-Americans, and...; Search Snippet: ...At Little Rock Law Journal Summer, 1998 Reforming the Bar: Women and the Arkansas Legal Profession [Fna1] Frances Mitchell Ross [Fnaa1... |
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| Elizabeth M. Iglesias , Francisco Valdes |
Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class in Coalitional Theory: a Critical and Self-critical Analysis of Latcrit Social Justice Agendas |
19 Chicano-Latino Law Review 503 (Spring 1998) |
Introduction. 504 I. Mapping the Power of Faith: The Role of Religion in LatCrit Theory as Anti-Subordination Legal Scholarship. 511 A. Anti-Essentialism, Anti-Subordination (Again). 513 B. Detecting the Bottom. 515 C. Locating LatCrit Analysis in the Material Realities and Historical Antecedents of the Here and Now. 521 D. A Two-Tiered Framework...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Chicano-latino Law Review Spring 1998 Afterword Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class in Coalitional Theory: a Critical And... |
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| Banu Ramachandran |
Re-reading Difference: Feminist Critiques of the Law School Classroom and the Problem with Speaking from Experience |
98 Columbia Law Review 1757 (November, 1998) |
Accompanying the recent surge in the number of women and people of color attending law school has been an explosion of legal scholarship devoted to examining the marginalization of law students on the basis of gender and race. Much of this work has focused specifically on the law school classroom, and three of the leading self-denominated feminist...; Search Snippet: ...Review Columbia Law Review November, 1998 Note Re-reading Difference: Feminist Critiques of the Law School Classroom and the Problem With... |
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| Karin Mika |
Self-reflection Within the Academy: the Absence of Women in Constitutional Jurisprudence |
9 Hastings Women's Law Journal 273 (Summer, 1998) |
One does not have to be an ardent feminist to recognize that the contributions of women in our society have been largely unacknowledged by both history and education. Individuals need only be reasonably attentive to recognize there is a similar absence of women within the curriculum presented in a standard legal education. If one reads Elise...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 1998 Self-reflection Within the Academy: the Absence of Women in Constitutional Jurisprudence Karin Mika [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Hastings... |
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| Anne S. De Groot, Jessica Stevens, Sarah Leibel, Lisa Pratt, and Sally Zierler |
Setting the Standard for Care: Hiv Risk Exposures and Clinical Manifestations of Hiv in Incarcerated Massachusetts Women |
24 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 353 (Summer, 1998) |
Women account for a small fraction of the prison and jail population nationwide (6.4% and 10.6% respectively); yet incarcerated women are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). At the end of 1995, 14.7% of female state prison inmates in the Northeast United States were known to be HIV seropositive, compared to 7.5% of...; Search Snippet: ...Risk Exposures and Clinical Manifestations of Hiv in Incarcerated Massachusetts Women Anne S. De Groot Jessica Stevens Sarah Leibel Lisa Pratt... |
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| Cheryl B. Preston |
Significant Bits and Pieces: Learning from Fashion Magazines about Violence Against Women |
9 UCLA Women's Law Journal 1 (Fall-Winter, 1998) |
Against the backdrop of high-profile advancements and expanded opportunities for women, Professor Cheryl Preston examines the implicit messages conveyed by prevalent and seemingly innocuous images in advertisements. Preston draws upon her five-year study of fashion magazines, exploring how advertisers use a variety of photography techniques (e.g....; Search Snippet: ...Bits and Pieces: Learning from Fashion Magazines about Violence Against Women Cheryl B. Preston [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Regents of The... |
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| Raymond C. O'Brien |
Single-gender Marriage: a Religious Perspective |
7 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 429 (Spring 1998) |
Little has changed so rapidly and so pervasively as family law in the United States. The dynamism of this change is revolutionary. Long-settled principles and practices regarding divorce, marital property, spousal support, and custody, to mention only a few instances, have been abandoned or substantially modified over the last few decades. Not...; Search Snippet: ...Same-sex Relationship Panel Four: Religion, Morality and Sexuality Single- Gender Marriage: a Religious Perspective Rev. Raymond C. O'brien [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Amy H. Nemko |
Single-sex Public Education after Vmi: the Case for Women's Schools |
21 Harvard Women's Law Journal 19 (Spring, 1998) |
[I]f we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen, and Philosophers, we should have learned women. Abigail Adams to John Adams, August 14, 1776 From the beginning the ultimate goal of the women's colleges has been to put themselves out of business. They have looked forward to the time when universal sexual equality would pronounce them obsolete. In 1995,...; Search Snippet: ...1998 Single-sex Public Education after Vmi: the Case for Women's Schools Amy H. Nemko [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 by The... |
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| Geoffrey A. Campbell |
Slow Progress for Minorities in Law |
84-SEP ABA Journal 82 (September, 1998) |
Minority participation in the legal profession has increased marginally since the mid-1980s, but looming obstacles could haltor even reversethe limited gains, according to a report released by the aba's Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession. The report, titled Miles to Go: Progress of Minorities in the Legal Profession,...; Search Snippet: ...Law Increase since Mid-'80s Is Tempered by Problems Facing Women of Color Geoffrey A. Campbell Copyright (C) 1998 by The... |
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| Michelle Chernikoff Anderson |
Speaking Freely about Reducing Violence Against Women: a Harm Reduction Strategy from the Law and Social Science of Pornography |
10 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 173 (Fall, 1998) |
I. Introduction. 173 II. Terminology. 176 III. Problems with Current Obscenity Law. 178 IV. Problems with the Current Debate. 180 V. The Research on Harm and Its Limitations. 183 VI. An Educational Approach. 191 A. Laboratory Research. 194 B. Natural Setting Research. 198 C. Research Implications. 200 VII. Conclusion. 204; Search Snippet: ...Policy Fall, 1998 Article Speaking Freely about Reducing Violence Against Women: a Harm Reduction Strategy from the Law and Social Science... |
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Stories from the Front: Seeking Refuge for Battered Immigrants in the Violence Against Women Act |
92 Northwestern University Law Review 665 (Winter 1998) |
We met at a vocational and technical education school. We began dating and fell in love. I was four months into my pregnancy when we got married. The abuse started when I became pregnant and gradually progressed in severity. . . . The verbal insults turned into physical abuse. When I fought back he would beat me and then force me to have sex with...; Search Snippet: ...Front: Seeking Refuge for Battered Immigrants in the Violence Against Women Act Linda Kelly [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Northwestern University School... |
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| Timothy Davis , Tonya Parker |
Student-athlete Sexual Violence Against Women: Defining the Limits of Institutional Responsibility |
55 Washington and Lee Law Review 55 (Winter 1998) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 56 II. A Propensity for Sexual Aggression?. 60 A. Empirical Research. 60 B. Sport's Influence in Shaping Cultural Values. 63 1. Sport's Reinforcement of Cultural Themes. 63 2. The Impact of Athletes' Behavior-Real or Imagined. 66 3. Summary. 72 III. Title IX as a Means of Recourse. 72 A. Limits of Litigation...; Search Snippet: ...Lee Law Review Winter 1998 Student-athlete Sexual Violence Against Women: Defining the Limits of Institutional Responsibility Timothy Davis [Fna1] Tonya... |
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Subtracting Sexism from the Classroom: Law and Policy in the Debate over All-female Math and Science Classes in Public Schools |
8 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (Fall 1998) |
In his dissent in United States v. Virginia, Justice Scalia pronounced single-sex public education functionally dead. He warned that, despite the illusion that government officials in some future case will have a clear shot at justifying some sort of single-sex public education, the invalidation of Virginia's separate military training for men...; Search Snippet: ...The Classroom: Law and Policy in the Debate over All- Female Math and Science Classes in Public Schools Carolyn B. Ramsey... |
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Taking Machismo to Court: the Gender Jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court |
30 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 253 (Winter, 1998) |
We cannot separate ourselves from the law. We are in a state of law. María Cristina Calderón, Director of Legal Services, PROFAMILIA. We want to make sure that people's fundamental rights do not just stay on paper. Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Magistrado and former President of the Colombian Constitutional Court. I. L2-4,T4introduction 255 L1-5 II....; Search Snippet: ...Review Winter, 1998 December, 1998 Taking Machismo to Court: the Gender Jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court Martha I. Morgan [Fna1... |
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