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| Bethany Ruth Berger |
After Pocahontas: Indian Women and the Law, 1830 to 1934 |
21 American Indian Law Review Rev. 1 (1997) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. The Nineteenth Century and Indian Women: Federal Indian Policy and the Cult of True Womanhood. 6 III. Federal and State Governments and Indian Women: As Themselves, as Mothers, and as Wives. 12 A. The Beginning: Ladiga's Heirs and Indian Women in Their Own Right. 12 B. Indian Women as Wives and Mothers: Intermarriage and...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review American Indian Law Review 1997 after Pocahontas: Indian Women and the Law, 1830 to 1934 Bethany Ruth Berger [Fna1... |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Jennifer Gaffney |
Amending the Violence Against Women Act: Creating a Rebuttable Presumption of Gender Animus in Rape Cases |
6 Journal of Law & Policy 247 (1997) |
Rape is a man's right. If a woman doesn't want to give it, a man should take it. Women have no right to say no. Women are made to have sex. It's all they are good for. Some women would rather take a beating, but they always give in . . . . The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), enacted in 1994, is a measure taken by Congress to address the...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Policy 1997 Note Amending the Violence Against Women Act: Creating a Rebuttable Presumption of Gender Animus in Rape Cases Jennifer Gaffney [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997... |
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| Richard J. Ansson, Jr. |
American Indian Legal History and the American Indian Woman |
21 American Indian Law Review 205 (1997) |
Changing Woman. By Karen Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. 291. Changing Woman, by Karen Anderson, is a perspicuous book that yields a profoundly thorough, yet astoundingly thoughtful, insight into the historical aspects of federal Indian policy and the residual effect those policies have had on American Indian women....; Search Snippet: ...Indian Law Review American Indian Law Review 1997 Book Review American Indian Legal History and the American Indian Woman Richard J. Ansson, Jr. [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 by The... |
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Anne Conners |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 33 (Symposium, 1997) |
ANNE CONNERS: First of all, let me introduce myself by saying that I am the president of New York City National Organization of Women (NOW). On this issue, in particular, I have journalists and members and public people coming up to me and saving, how can NOW possibly be taking a stance on an all-girl school in East Harlem? So, at events like...; Search Snippet: ...Figured out What He Meant. He Was Saying That These Latino Girls Were Over-sexed, That They Were Just Bursting with Hormones... |
1997 |
Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Samantha Catherine Halem |
At What Cost?: an Argument Against Mandatory Azt Treatment of Hiv-positive Pregnant Women |
32 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 491 (Summer, 1997) |
Children born with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) inspire great sympathy. They are only a small segment of the estimated one million people infected in the United States today, but they are the most pitiable because of their innocence. Without the possibility of a cure, these children are sentenced from birth to a slow and painful death....; Search Snippet: ...An Argument Against Mandatory Azt Treatment of Hiv-positive Pregnant Women Samantha Catherine Halem [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 by the President... |
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| Jewel D. Amoah |
Back on the Auction Block: a Discussion of Black Women and Pornography |
14 National Black Law Journal 204 (Spring 1997) |
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines pornography as: The explicit description or exhibition of sexual subjects or activity in literature, painting, films, etc., in a manner intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic feelings. This definition in itself should suffice to say that pornography, having no aesthetic value (that is, not...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Back on the Auction Block: a Discussion of Black Women and Pornography Jewel D. Amoah [Fna] Copyright (C) 1997 National... |
1997 |
African/Black American |
| Lucy Wang |
Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change. By Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, and Jane Balin. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. 1997. Pp. 175. Hardcover. |
38 Santa Clara Law Review 317 (1997) |
As women increasingly make up almost half of all entering first-year students at law schools nationwide, the authors of Becoming Gentlemen suggest that this has not resulted in a corresponding change in the institutions in which men and women receive their legal training. For example, while men and women enter law school with essentially equivalent...; Search Snippet: ...Review Santa Clara Law Review 1997 Book Received Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change. By Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine... |
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| Margaret Chon |
Being Between |
17 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 571 (1997) |
An unnamed genre of children's literature exists in which girls have adventures: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Heidi, The Secret Garden, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Witch of Blackbury Pond. In almost all of these stories, birth parents are missing in action and even siblings are rare. These...; Search Snippet: ...Script Cultural Production Being Between a Review Essay of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry Margaret Chon [Fna1] Copyright... |
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African/Black American |
| J. Clay Smith, Jr. |
Black Women Lawyers: 125 Years at the Bar; 100 Years in the Legal Academy |
40 Howard Law Journal 365 (Winter 1997) |
In 1833, Maria Stewart posed a question that is relevant today: When I cast my eyes on the long list of illustrious names of fame among the whites, I turn my eyes within, and ask my thoughts, Where are the names of our illustrious ones? The accomplishments of the modern black woman cannot be fully explored without paying tribute to the...; Search Snippet: ...896546 Howard Law Journal Howard Law Journal Winter 1997 Black Women Lawyers: 125 Years at the Bar; 100 Years in The... |
1997 |
African/Black American |
| Lori L. Schick |
Breaking the "Rule of Thumb" and Opening the Curtains--can the Violence Against Women Act Survive Constitutional Scrutiny? |
28 University of Toledo Law Review 887 (Summer, 1997) |
BEGINNING in Great Britain during the nineteenth century, the law permitted and, in fact, encouraged violence against women. Indeed, the common law legend that a wife could be beaten so long as the stick was no thicker than a man's thumb, perpetuated the belief that moderate correction and restraint between a husband and his spouse were not...; Search Snippet: ...Of Thumb and Opening the Curtains--can the Violence Against Women Act Survive Constitutional Scrutiny? Lori L. Schick Copyright (C) 1997... |
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| April L. Cherry |
Choosing Substantive Justice: a Discussion of "Choice," "Rights" and the New Reproductive Technologies |
11 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 431 (Summer 1997) |
For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call America, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson--that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, in Sister Outsider 40, 42 (1984). In the above quoted passage, Audre Lorde explains the importance of...; Search Snippet: ...Of Historically and Contemporarily Oppressed and Vilified Groups, Such as African- Americans, Latinos, Asians, Women of All Races and Ethnic Groups, Lesbians and Gay Men... |
1997 |
Multiple Groups |
| Stephanie L. Phillips |
Claiming Our Foremothers: the Legend of Sally Hemings and the Tasks of Black Feminist Theory |
8 Hastings Women's Law Journal 401 (Fall, 1997) |
C1-5TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-5 I. L2-5INTRODUCTION L1-5 II. L2-5THE LEGEND OF SALLY HEMINGS A. L3-5THE DRAMA UNFOLDS B. L3-5WHAT SEQUEL SHALL I WRITE? L1-5 III. L2-5PRIMEVAL STORIES ABOUT BLACK WOMEN AND WHITE MEN DURING SLAVERY TIME A. L3-5DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT B. L3-5THE STORIES 1. L4-5First Primeval Story: Slave Hates Master; Master Takes Sex...; Search Snippet: ...The Legend of Sally Hemings and the Tasks of Black Feminist Theory Stephanie L. Phillips [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 by The... |
1997 |
African/Black American |
| G. Kristian Miccio |
Closing My Eyes and Remembering Myself : Reflections of a Lesbian Law Professor |
7 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 167 (1997) |
I know that I am in the right place. The room is stuffy. The portraits of past deans line the wall reminding some of us that we are interlopers. The gaze of the dead mixes with that of the livingstaring at a podium inhabited by the newest member of the law school faculty. I am hereready to teach, to probe my students' minds, and to allow them to...; Search Snippet: ...Especially Once the Composition of the Jury Is Revealedseven Women, Five Men, Two African- Americans, Five Latinos, and Five People of European Descent. Unlike the King Case... |
1997 |
Multiple Groups |
| Pamela D. Bridgewater |
Connectedness and Closeted Questions: the Use of History in Developing Feminist Legal Theory |
11 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 351 (Summer 1997) |
I must admit that I approached the task of discussing the future of feminist legel theory with some apprehension. How could I, a person whose work is primarily historical in nature, offer information about where it is I think feminist theory is headed? This all changed, fortunately, after I considered the role history has played not only in my work...; Search Snippet: ...Connectedness and Closeted Questions: the Use of History in Developing Feminist Legal Theory Pamela D. Bridgewater [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 Wisconsin... |
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| Shanon M. Gregor |
Constitutional Law--equal Protection--gender Discrimination: the Virginia Military Institute Is Given the Opportunity to Create "Citizen-soldiers" out of Qualified Women United States V. Virginia, 116 S. Ct. 2264 (1996) |
73 North Dakota Law Review 323 (1997) |
In the words of the district court, [i]t was May 1864 that the United States and the Virginia Military Institute first confronted each other [in] a life-and-death engagement on the battlefield . . . . The combatants have again confronted each other, . . . this time . . . in . . . court. Nonetheless, . . . the struggle is nothing short of a...; Search Snippet: ...Dakota Law Review 1997 Case Comment Constitutional Law--equal Protection-- Gender Discrimination: the Virginia Military Institute Is Given the Opportunity to Create Citizen-soldiers out of Qualified Women United States V. Virginia, 116 S. Ct. 2264 (1996) [Fn1... |
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| Lisa Frohmann |
Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideologies in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking |
31 Law and Society Review 531 (1997) |
Using ethnographic data, I examine prosecutors' discourse on case convictability (the likelihood of a guilty verdict at trial) in sexual assault cases. The analysis shows how prosecutors construct discordant locales through their categorization of victims, defendants, jurors, and their communities and the location of crime incidents. It...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Article Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideologies in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking Lisa Frohmann [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997... |
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| Adrien Katherine Wing |
Critical Race Feminism and the International Human Rights of Women in Bosnia, Palestine, and South Africa: Issues for Latcrit Theory |
28 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 337 (1997) |
I. Introduction. 337 L1-2 II. Critical Race Feminism. 339 L1-2 III. Spirit Injury in Bosnia. 343 L1-2 IV. Palestine. 347 L1-2 V. South Africa. 350 L1-2 VI. Palestinian and South African Women: Violence Against Women. 353 L1-2 VII. Conclusion. 360; Search Snippet: ...Two Critical Race Feminism and the International Human Rights of Women in Bosnia, Palestine, and South Africa: Issues for Latcrit Theory... |
1997 |
African/Black American |
| Adrien K. Wing , Christine A. Willis |
Critical Race Feminism: Black Women and Gangs |
1 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 141 (Fall, 1997) |
A girl was tortured, tied to a manhole cover, and thrown off a bridge to her death. Another girl was attacked on her way home from the grocery store and one of her fingers was chopped off. A young man was beaten so severely he ended up in a coma. Two men were lured to a park and both were shot in the head. All of these brutal crimes have one thing...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Penalties, Prohibitions & Punishment Symposium Article Critical Race Feminism: Black Women and Gangs [Fna1] Adrien K. Wing [Fnaa1] Christine A. Willis... |
1997 |
African/Black American |
| Christopher M. Alexander |
Crushing Equality: Gender Equal Sentencing in America |
6 American University Journal of Gender & the Law 199 (Fall 1997) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 200 II. A LOOK AT THE CURRENT SENTENCING POLICIES. 201 A. Federal: the Sentencing Guidelines and Mandatory Minimums. 201 B. State: Mandatory Minimums and Three Strikes . 202 III. RATIONALES SUPPORTING AND OPPOSING THE REFORMS. 203 A. Benefits of Current Sentencing Laws. 203 1. Deterrence. 203 2. Uniform Punishment System. 205 3....; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender & the Law Fall 1997 Articles Crushing Equality: Gender Equal Sentencing in America Christopher M. Alexander [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Ann Scales |
Disappearing Medusa: the Fate of Feminist Legal Theory? |
20 Harvard Women's Law Journal 34 (Spring, 1997) |
Here is all my liberal arts education had to say about Medusa: In Greek mythology, she was a Gorgon, a monster with hair of snakes. Gazing upon a Gorgon would turn a man to stone. The mortal Perseus set out against all odds to kill Medusa, to give her head as a wedding present (to his creepy future stepfather). Perseus prevailed, but only with help...; Search Snippet: ...Years of Feminist Thought Essay Disappearing Medusa: the Fate of Feminist Legal Theory? [Fna1] Ann Scales [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1997 By... |
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| Dolores Garcia |
Dolores Garcia |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 149 (Symposium, 1997) |
What I would like to share with you today is a review of the literature on single-sex schooling and also outline the study that I have been conducting over the course of the past two years, which is the source of my dissertation entitled, Single-Sex Public Schooling for Girls: Implications for Educational Policy. I became...; Search Snippet: ...Study Focuses on Minority Girls. My Analytic Sample Includes White Girls, African- American Girls, and Asian Girls. I Attempted to Include Hispanic Girls as Well; However, the N (Number of Girls)or the Number of Hispanic Girls... |
1997 |
Multiple Groups |
| Janice Koch |
Dr. Janice Koch |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 139 (Symposium, 1997) |
I am a science teacher educator, and my research has been engaged in encouraging the participation of girls and young women in all areas of mathematics and science. I spent a great deal of my time, first, as a teacher in a coeducational private school in New York City in the sciences for about 12 years, and then as a consultant to...; Search Snippet: ...Floors of 105 East 106th Street, There Are 55 Uniformed Hispanic and African- American Girls [Fn26] Interacting in Three Learning Groups. They Follow a Program... |
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Multiple Groups |
| Micere Githae Mugo |
Elitist Anti-circumcision Discourse as Mutilating and Anti-feminist |
47 Case Western Reserve Law Review 461 (Winter 1997) |
The space limitation of this paper militates against a coherent response to the wealth of pertinent ideas raised by Professor Obiora's timely intervention on the question of female circumcision. Until now, the issue has been approached mostly from anthropological, health, policy, and popular literature perspectives, but it has never been so closely...; Search Snippet: ...Female Circumcision Elitist Anti-circumcision Discourse as Mutilating and Anti- Feminist Micere Githae Mugo [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1997 Case Western Reserve... |
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| Sylvia A. Law |
Ending Welfare as We Know it |
49 Stanford Law Review 471 (January, 1997) |
In this review essay, Professor Law discusses the disparity between the rhetoric surrounding the recently passed welfare reform legislation and the actual lifestyles of welfare recipients. Drawing on the five books under review, Professor Law debunks the welfare myths that allowed politicians to claim the recent legislation ended welfare as we...; Search Snippet: ...Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1995. 225 Pp. $22.50. Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor. By Ruth... |
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| Sherri Kimmel |
Entering the Select Circle Rainmaker Lawyers Have Traditionally Been Men. But It's Another Tradition That's Changing. More and More Women Lawyers Are Successfully Cultivating the Visibility, Contacts and Relationships on Which Business Is Built |
19-JUN Pennsylvania Lawyer 24 (May/June, 1997) |
Fifteen years ago the title partner was a rare appendage to a woman lawyer's name. Now with the numbers of female partners growing, though not abounding, more women are finding that most glorious of appellations attached to their names -- rainmaker. Nationally, and in major urban centers such as Philadelphia, organizations for women are springing...; Search Snippet: ...Men. But It's Another Tradition That's Changing. More and More Women Lawyers Are Successfully Cultivating the Visibility, Contacts and Relationships On... |
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| Karen Lazarus Kupetz |
Equal Benefits, Equal Burdens: "Skeptical Scrutiny" for Gender Classifications after United States V. Virginia |
30 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1333 (April, 1997) |
However liberally [the Virginia Military Institute] plan serves the State's sons, it makes no provision whatever for her daughters. That is not equal protection. --Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg In 1872 Supreme Court Justice Bradley wrote, Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. . . . The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to...; Search Snippet: ...April, 1997 Note Equal Benefits, Equal Burdens: Skeptical Scrutiny for Gender Classifications after United States V. Virginia Karen Lazarus Kupetz [Fna... |
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| Amber L. Pearce |
Faulkner V. Jones: the Constitutionality of the Citadel'ssingle-gender Admissions Policy |
31 New England Law Review 523 (Winter 1997) |
With the exception of the all-male Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute, women have for twenty years been able to attend either a United States military academy or a state military college. They have successfully integrated into the United States Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, and...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Comment Faulkner V. Jones: the Constitutionality of the Citadel'ssingle- Gender Admissions Policy Amber L. Pearce [Fna] Copyright (C) 1997 New... |
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| Lucinda M. Finley |
Female Trouble: the Implications of Tort Reform for Women |
64 Tennessee Law Review 847 (Spring, 1997) |
I. Limitations on Non-Pecuniary Loss Damages: The Worth of a Womb. 850 II. The FDA Defense: Condoning the Tendency to Trivialize Risks to Women's Health. 867 III. Conclusion. 879 Tort reform, particularly in products liability actions, has been on the federal legislative burner for over a decade. Its latest incarnation, the Common Sense Product...; Search Snippet: ...Rev. 847 1997 Wl 432007 Tennessee Law Review Spring, 1997 Female Trouble: the Implications of Tort Reform for Women Lucinda M. Finley [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 by the Tennessee... |
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| Esther Vicente |
Feminist Legal Theories: My Own View from a Window in the Caribbean |
66 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico 211 (1997) |
This article is a reflection on the interconnections among law, feminist politics and feminist theory, and an analysis of the different feminist perspectives concerning the role of law in the process of changing women's situation in society. I will present the different perspectives elaborated by feminist legal theorists, as well as the critiques...; Search Snippet: ...De Puerto Rico Revista Juridica Universidad De Puerto Rico 1997 Feminist Legal Theories: My Own View from a Window in The... |
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Final Report & Recommendations of the Eighth Circuit Gender Fairness Task Force |
31 Creighton Law Review Rev. 9 (December, 1997) |
In the Summer of 1993 the Judicial Council of the Eighth Circuit passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a task force to study and report on the role of gender as it affects the lawyers, litigants, judges, employees, and others who participate in the courts of the Eighth Circuit. The task has been formidable--the data are complex and...; Search Snippet: ...Fairness Task Force Final Report & Recommendations of the Eighth Circuit Gender Fairness Task Force September, 1997 Copyright (C) 1997 Creighton University... |
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| Denise C. Morgan |
Finding a Constitutionally Permissble Path to Sex Equality: the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 95 (Symposium, 1997) |
I feel obliged to open this piece with a small confession. If it were possible for me to step back in time to 1982, to meet myself at the age of seventeen, and to tell my seventeen-year-old self that she would grow up to be something of a champion for single-sex educationshe would probably have fits. That is because in late January 1982, I was...; Search Snippet: ...Finding a Constitutionally Permissble Path to Sex Equality: the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem Denise C. Morgan [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Ryan Goodman |
Gender Blindness and the Hunter Doctrine |
107 Yale Law Journal 261 (October, 1997) |
As a factual matter, the recent reinstatement of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) withdrew many opportunities for racial minorities and women in important public sectors. As a legal matter, the Ninth Circuit decision that justified this result--Coalition for Economic Equity v. Wilson (CEE) --rests on questionable grounds. The court...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal Yale Law Journal October, 1997 Case Note Gender Blindness and the Hunter Doctrine Coalition for Economic Equity V... |
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| Kathleen Daly, Michael Tonry |
Gender, Race, and Sentencing |
22 Crime and Justice 201 (1997) |
Race and gender pose empirical and policy problems that are both similar and different for the U.S. criminal justice system. They are similar in that blacks and women occupy subordinate social and economic positions in American life, and their interests are less likely to be represented in the justice system than are those of white men. They are...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Wl 33806586 Crime and Justice Crime and Justice 1997 Gender, Race, and Sentencing Kathleen Daly Michael Tonry [Fna1] Copyright © 1997... |
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African/Black American |
| Valorie K. Vojdik |
Girls' Schools after Vmi: Do They Make the Grade? |
4 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 69 (Spring, 1997) |
Forty years after the United States Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated schools violate the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court in United States v. Virginia held that Virginia failed to justify the exclusion of qualified women from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a prestigious college with a...; Search Snippet: ...1997 Gender & the Higher Education Classroom: Maximizing the Learning Environment Girls' Schools after Vmi: Do They Make the Grade? Valorie K... |
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| Barbara Stark |
Guys and Dolls: Remedial Nurturing Skills in Post-divorce Practice, Feminist Theory, and Family Law Doctrine |
26 Hofstra Law Review 293 (Winter 1997) |
Introduction. 295 I. Guys and Dolls--The Story of the Unitary Family. 299 A. Practice. 299 B. Theory. 301 C. Doctrine. 306 II. How This Story Fails Post-Divorce Families. 309 III. Changing Roles and Post-Divorce Families: Remedial Nurturing Skills. 315 A. Practice. 319 1. Empathy. 319 a. Recognizing a Child's Feelings. 319 b. Engaging Cooperation....; Search Snippet: ...Guys and Dolls: Remedial Nurturing Skills in Post-divorce Practice, Feminist Theory, and Family Law Doctrine Barbara Stark [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Katherine M. Franke |
Homosexuals, Torts, and Dangerous Things |
106 Yale Law Journal 2661 (June, 1997) |
Negligent, intentional, and strict liability torts. From a canonical standpoint, whatever else one might teach, it is not a first-year torts course if these three concepts are not covered. Torts has a canon, even a Restatement. Yet a canon evolves only after some criteria of value has been established such that privileged texts can be identified...; Search Snippet: ...Co., 2d Ed. 1997. Pp. Xlv, 922. $54.00. Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. By William N. Eeskridge Jr. [Fnaa] And... |
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| Nancy Press, Ph.D. , Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D. , Sharon Durfy, Ph.D. |
How Are Jewish Women Different from All Other Women? |
7 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 135 (Winter, 1997) |
IN 1994, WHEN THE FIRST GENE was found whose mutations predispose some women to breast and ovarian cancer, researchers stressed that mutations in this BRCA1 gene probably accounted for no more than five percent of all breast cancers and that these were cancers in women from very high-risk families. Yet, the idea of population-based testing is...; Search Snippet: ...Breast Cancer Gene in the Jewish Population How Are Jewish Women Different from All Other Women? Anthropological Perspectives on Genetic Susceptibility Testing for Breast Cancer Nancy... |
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| Justice Robert L. Brown, Sheila Campbell |
How the Public Views Female and Black Attorneys |
32-FALL Arkansas Lawyer 22 (Fall, 1997) |
About two years ago, Sheila Campbell and I met as co-chairs of the Committee on Opportunities for Women and Minorities to discuss projects for the year. It was Sheila's idea to conduct a public opinion poll on how women and African-American attorneys are viewed by the public at large. Does bias exist? If so, what form does it take? And who are most...; Search Snippet: ...Lawyer Arkansas Lawyer Fall, 1997 Feature How the Public Views Female and Black Attorneys Justice Robert L. Brown Sheila Campbell Copyright... |
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African/Black American |
| Jenny E. Carroll |
Images of Women and Capital Sentencing among Female Offenders: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Eighth Amendment and Articulated Theories of Justice |
75 Texas Law Review 1413 (May, 1997) |
[I]f I needed a cause, there were plenty of far more deserving people out there to feel sorry for. And even within our concern for imprisoned women, why focus on capital punishment when death row is roughly as open to women as the United States Senate? In 1972, the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in its...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Texas Law Review May, 1997 Note Images of Women and Capital Sentencing among Female Offenders: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Eighth Amendment And... |
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| Bina Kalola |
Immigration Laws and the Immigrant Woman: 1885-1924 |
11 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 553 (Spring, 1997) |
The intent of our immigration laws is not to restrict immigration, but to sift it, to separate the desirable from the undesirable immigrants, and to permit only those to land on our shores who have certain physical and moral qualities. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century immigration laws of the United States began as a selection process and...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Spring, 1997 Note Immigration Laws and the Immigrant Woman: 1885-1924 Bina Kalola Copyright (C) 1997 by the Georgetown... |
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| Katherine Chen |
Including Gender in Bias Crime Statutes: Feminist and Evolutionary Perspectives |
3 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 277 (Spring, 1997) |
In December, 1989, Marc Lepine walked into an engineering class at the University of Montreal, armed with a rifle. He divided the class into two groups, shouting, I want the women. As he shot each woman at point blank range, he shouted, You're all a bunch of feminists. I hate feminists. After he shot fourteen women, all between the ages of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Women and the Law Spring, 1997 Note Including Gender in Bias Crime Statutes: Feminist and Evolutionary Perspectives Katherine Chen Copyright (C) 1997 by The... |
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| Lisa A. Crooms |
Indivisible Rights and Intersectional Identities Or, "What Do Women's Human Rights Have to Do with the Race Convention?" |
40 Howard Law Journal 619 (Spring 1997) |
Because I am black Because I am woman Because I am short Because I am young Because I am African I am Human. On December 21, 1965, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly unanimously adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The treaty was entered into force on January 4, 1969. Although...; Search Snippet: ...Discrimination (Cerd) Indivisible Rights and Intersectional Identities Or, What Do Women's Human Rights Have to Do with the Race Convention? Lisa... |
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African/Black American |
| Kathryn A. Lee |
Intermediate Review 'With Teeth' in Gender Discrimination Cases: the New Standard in United States V. Virginia |
7 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 221 (Fall 1997) |
The U.S. Supreme Court held in United States v. Virginia that the all-male admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also ruled that the alternative program for women that VMI had established at Mary Baldwin College did not remedy the violation. The ruling...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall 1997 Note Intermediate Review with Teeth in Gender Discrimination Cases: the New Standard in United States V. Virginia... |
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| Laura M. Padilla |
Intersectionality and Positionality: Situating Women of Color in the Affirmative Action Dialogue |
66 Fordham Law Review 843 (December, 1997) |
C1-3Table of Contents Introduction. 844 I. Affirmative Action Backlash or Debunking The Myths. 853 A.Myth: Women of Color Double-Dip From Affirmative Action. 854 B.Myth: Affirmative Action Disregards Merit'. 862 C.Myth: Affirmative Action is Justified Only Under a Perpetrator-Victim Model. 869 D.Myth: Affirmative Action Beneficiaries are...; Search Snippet: ...Review Fordham Law Review December, 1997 Intersectionality and Positionality: Situating Women of Color in the Affirmative Action Dialogue Laura M. Padilla... |
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| Linda G. Mills |
Intuition and Insight: a New Job Description for the Battered Woman's Prosecutor and Other More Modest Proposals |
7 UCLA Women's Law Journal 183 (Spring-Summer 1997) |
The relation between two persons, which was, so to speak, co-natural to the feminine, becomes a process that has to be re-conquered. Woman has to seek out the values of exchange and communication, as does man, but for different reasons. He has to overcome the priority he gives to the accumulation, possession, or at best the exchange of objects,...; Search Snippet: ...Intuition and Insight: a New Job Description for the Battered Woman's Prosecutor and Other More Modest Proposals Linda G. Mills [Fna... |
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| Deborah S. Hellman |
Is Actuarially Fair Insurance Pricing Actually Fair?: a Case Study in Insuring Battered Women |
32 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 355 (Summer, 1997) |
It is important to note that statutes regulating the business of insurance are not meant to prevent all discrimination, but only unfair discrimination. In 1995, the public, the bar, and the legislators of several states began to respond to a 1988 survey of insurers that indicated that internal policy guidelines of approximately half of the nation's...; Search Snippet: ...Insurance Pricing Actually Fair?: a Case Study in Insuring Battered Women Deborah S. Hellman [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 by the President... |
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| Leslie G. Espinoza |
Legal Narratives, Therapeutic Narratives: the Invisibility and Omnipresence of Race and Gender |
95 Michigan Law Review 901 (February, 1997) |
My first introduction to Denise Gray was through a form. The intake sheet was dated October 17, 1994. The legal problem was straightforward: Divorce. Married 7 years. Has lived with H [husband] on and off for 15 years. Two children from H born out of wedlock. Clt [client] married in Belmont, MA. Clt has children. H has not been living at home since...; Search Snippet: ...Narratives, Therapeutic Narratives: the Invisibility and Omnipresence of Race and Gender Leslie G. Espinoza [Fna] Copyright (C) 1997 Michigan Law Review... |
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| Hope Lewis |
Lionheart Gals Facing the Dragon: the Human Rights of Inter/national Black Women in the United States |
76 Oregon Law Review 567 (Fall 1997) |
[T]o survive in the mouth of this dragon we call America, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson--that we were never meant to survive. --Audre Lorde By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion . . . . For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song . . . . How shall we sing the...; Search Snippet: ...Facing the Dragon: the Human Rights of Inter/national Black Women in the United States Hope Lewis [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1997... |
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| Barbara Fedders |
Lobbying for Mandatory-arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement |
23 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 281 (1997) |
During my three years as a volunteer with a community-based organization for battered women, we tried, through education and grass-roots organizing, to convince police departments to implement policies that would lead to more arrests of men who perpetrate domestic violence. We believed that the problem of violence between intimate partners...; Search Snippet: ...Arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement Barbara Fedders Copyright (C) 1997 New York University Review... |
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| Angela Mae Kupenda |
Making Traditional Courses More Inclusive: Confessions of an African American Female Professor Who Attempted to Crash All the Barriers at Once |
31 University of San Francisco Law Review 975 (Summer 1997) |
WE MUST DISMANTLE all barriers at once! No, go slow! These were two of the opposing cries heard during the civil rights movement. Some thought the only way to eliminate exclusiveness, based on race and gender, was to dismantle all the barriers all at once. Others thought the costs of such change too great and urged for caution and patience....; Search Snippet: ...1997 Essay Making Traditional Courses More Inclusive: Confessions of an African American Female Professor Who Attempted to Crash All the Barriers at Once... |
1997 |
African/Black American |