AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearEthnicity in Title or SummaryGender in Title or Summary
Carrie Menkel-Meadow Taking the Mass out of Mass Torts: Reflections of a Dalkon Shield Arbitrator on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Judging, Neutrality, Gender, and Process 31 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 513 (January, 1998) Life in the modern and post-modern world has changed our understanding of many traditional legal matters. Although many died from plagues, wars, and some shipping and agricultural accidents in the years which preceded the Industrial Revolution and modern breakthroughs in medicine, the twentieth century has given rise to group injury and death at...; Search Snippet: ...A Dalkon Shield Arbitrator on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Judging, Neutrality, Gender, and Process Carrie Menkel-meadow [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Loyola... 1998    
Patricia A. Davidson Tales from the Tobacco Wars: Industry Advertising Targets Teenage Girls 13 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Spring 1998) Startling statistics on youth smoking prompted the Surgeon General to label smoking a pediatric epidemic in her 1994 report. Relying on this data and new evidence that the tobacco industry intended their tobacco products to affect the structure and function of the body, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asserted jurisdiction over tobacco...; Search Snippet: ...Article Tales from the Tobacco Wars: Industry Advertising Targets Teenage Girls Patricia A. Davidson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Wisconsin Women's Law... 1998   Yes
Tiffany Zwicker Eggers The "Becca Bill" Would Not Have Saved Becca: Washington State's Treatment of Young Female Offenders 16 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 219 (Winter 1998) On the afternoon of October 17, 1993, John Metlock, a man in his mid-30s, approached 13-year-old runaway Rebecca Hedman. He offered her $50 for sex. A few hours later, the young runaway was dead. After Metlock and Becca had sex, Metlock demanded his money back. When Becca refused, Metlock grabbed a baseball bat and repeatedly clubbed Becca on the...; Search Snippet: ...Would Not Have Saved Becca: Washington State's Treatment of Young Female Offenders Tiffany Zwicker Eggers [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Law And... 1998   Yes
Tod Christopher Gurney The Aftermath of the Virginia Military Institute Decision: Will Single-gender Education Survive? 38 Santa Clara Law Review 1183 (1998) On June 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in United States v. Virginia. In this case, the Court ruled that the Virginia Military Institute's (VMI) male-only admissions policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Justice Ginsburg, for the majority, wrote that...; Search Snippet: ...The Aftermath of the Virginia Military Institute Decision: Will Single- Gender Education Survive? Tod Christopher Gurney Copyright (C) 1998 School Of... 1998    
Mary L. Clark The Founding of the Washington College of Law: the First Law School Established by Women for Women 47 American University Law Review 613 (February, 1998) Introduction. 614 I. The Early Lives of Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma Gillett and the Founding of the Woman's Law Class in 1896. 616 A. Ellen Spencer Mussey. 616 B. Emma Gillett. 625 C. Mussey and Gillett as Prototypes of Early Women Lawyers. 629 II. The History of the Woman's Law Class and the Founding of the Washington College of Law in 1898. 633...; Search Snippet: ...Washington College of Law: the First Law School Established by Women for Women Mary L. Clark [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998 Washington College Of... 1998   Yes
Jennifer L. Nye The Gender Box 13 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 226 (1998) When I was born.the doctor confidently declared, It's a girl. That might haave been the last time anyone was so sure. It is almost impossible to interact with other people without knowing their gender. Indeed, our lives are so highly gendered that gender becomes an invisible assumption which orders our lives. We use the correct bathroom, buy the...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Womens Law Journal Berkeley Women's Law Journal 1998 the Gender Box Jennifer L. Nye [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 1998 by Jennifer... 1998    
Ronnie L. Podolefsky The Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement after the Nineteenth Amendment 73 Notre Dame Law Review 839 (March, 1998) A century of struggle preceded the 1920 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Conventional wisdom holds that passage of the amendment heralded women's right to vote and that, at the same time, it signaled the end of the women's rights movement until the 1960s. This essay challenges both assumptions. The Southern...; Search Snippet: ...March, 1998 1997 Feminist Jurisprudence Essay the Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement after the Nineteenth Amendment [Fnd1] Ronnie... 1998   Yes
Martha Chamallas The New Gender Panic: Reflections on Sex Scandals and the Military 83 Minnesota Law Review 305 (December, 1998) The legal regulation of sexual conduct is a precarious enterprise. At times, it appears that laws governing sexual conduct are grossly underenforced. We are used to statistics that tell us that only a small fraction of rapes are reported to police and that relatively few victims of sexual harassment have the temerity to complain about their...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Minnesota Law Review December, 1998 Article the New Gender Panic: Reflections on Sex Scandals and the Military Martha Chamallas... 1998    
Katherine Marconi , Barney Singer , Marsha Fahrer The Paradigm Shift in Medicaid: Women with Hiv under Managed Care 5 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 211 (Spring, 1998) In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn rejects the concept of development-by-accumulation, which describes scientific advancement as based on a progression of ideas, each incorporating all that precede it, and ultimately yielding a new understanding. He views scientific revolutions as non-cumulative developmental episodes in...; Search Snippet: ...Gender Law & Policy Spring, 1998 the Paradigm Shift in Medicaid: Women with Hiv under Managed Care [Fna1] Katherine Marconi [Fnaa1] Barney... 1998   Yes
Mary Louise Fellows , Sherene Razack The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women 1 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 335 (Spring 1998) We came to write this Article after reflecting on the many times that feminist political solidarity has failed because of what we identify below as the problem of competing marginalities. These moments of conflict and political immobility seem to center around the deeply felt belief that each of us, as women, is not implicated in the...; Search Snippet: ...1998 Article the Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women Mary Louise Fellows [Fna1] Sherene Razack [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1998... 1998   Yes
Tracey E. Spruce The Sound of Silence: Women's Voices in Medicine and Law 7 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 239 (1998) Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Angela Stoner. Her friends and family called her Angie. When she was thirteen, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in her left leg and had to undergo radiation and chemotherapy. The treatments made her sick and she lost her hair. The doctors had told her she was going to die; instead she...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender and Law 1998 the Sound of Silence: Women's Voices in Medicine and Law Tracey E. Spruce [Fna1] Copyright... 1998   Yes
  The University of Michigan Law School Women Law Students Association Statement on Affirmative Action 5 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 214 (1998) February 9, 1998 In the face of recent lawsuits, the Women Law Students Association (WLSA) stands firmly in defense of affirmative action. We believe the lawsuits against the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School are wholly without merit. Affirmative action policies have effected important gains toward sex equality. Along...; Search Snippet: ...1998 Affirmative Action Statements the University of Michigan Law School Women Law Students Association Statement on Affirmative Action Copyright (C) 1998... 1998   Yes
Erin A. McGrath The Young Women's Leadership School: a Viable Alternative to Traditional Coeducational Public Schools 4 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 455 (1998) The need for alternative styles of schooling has emerged as one of the most debated topics in large cities throughout the country due to the decaying quality of public school education. The failure of the urban public school system has been attributed to many societal problems. Primarily, there has been a demographic change in large cities,...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Cardozo Women's Law Journal 1998 Notes the Young Women's Leadership School: a Viable Alternative to Traditional Coeducational Public Schools... 1998   Yes
Twila L. Perry Transracial and International Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory 10 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 101 (1998) Although in recent years substantial attention has been devoted to both transracial and international adoption, there has been comparatively little discussion of how adoption, and more specifically, how transracial and international adoption might be analyzed from a feminist perspective. It seems clear, however, that transracial and international...; Search Snippet: ...1998 Article Transracial and International Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory Twila L. Perry [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 1998 Yale... 1998    
Amanda Elizabeth Koman Urban, Single-sex, Public Secondary Schools: Advancing Full Development of the Talent and Capacities of America's Young Women 39 William and Mary Law Review 507 (January, 1998) Wearing white blouses and navy blue skirts and blazers while sitting upon metal stools around shiny, rectangular, wooden laboratory tables, eighteen seventh-grade girls quietly listened to their science teacher. She asked them to describe the weather outside. Several girls called out cloudy and cold. The teacher asked a nonparticipating student...; Search Snippet: ...Full Development of the Talent and Capacities of America's Young Women Amanda Elizabeth Koman Copyright (C) 1998 William and Mary Law... 1998   Yes
Morrison Torrey, Jennifer Ries, Elaine Spiliopoulos What Every First-year Female Law Student Should Know 7 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 267 (1998) I don't feel as intelligent now as I did before law school. What can first-year women law students expect during law school? Is law school still dominated by men or has legal education responded to the challenge to eliminate sex discrimination? Is there anything women can do to minimize the effects of gender bias and maximize their law school...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender and Law 1998 What Every First-year Female Law Student Should Know [Fna1] Morrison Torrey Jennifer Ries Elaine... 1998   Yes
Paul A. Davis What Is "Sex" ? Heterosexual-male-on-heterosexual-male Sexual Harassment Actions after Oncale V. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. 71 Southern California Law Review 1341 (September, 1998) INTRODUCTION. 1343 I. TITLE VII PROTECTION PRIOR TO ONCALE. 1346 A. The Development of Title VII Sexual Harassment Causes of Action: Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment. 1346 BHeterosexual-Male-on-Heterosexual-Male Sexual Harassment Prior to Oncale. 1348 1The Pattern in the Cases1348 2. The Circuit Division That Led to Oncale. 1350 II. ONCALE V....; Search Snippet: ...That Had Resulted in Discrimination Against Specific Groups Such as African Americans and Women By, Respectively, Whites and Men. However, this Correction-of-group... 1998 African/Black American  
Joanne A. Liu When Law and Culture Clash: Female Genital Mutilation, a Traditional Practice Gaining Recognition as a Global Concern 11 New York International Law Review 71 (Winter, 1998) Recently, there has been much attention paid in the media to the issue of female genital cutting. The July 1996 determination by the United States Board of Immigration Appeals to grant political asylum to a 19-year-old Togolese woman on the ground that she would unwillingly be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) if she were deported back...; Search Snippet: ...International Law Review Winter, 1998 When Law and Culture Clash: Female Genital Mutilation, a Traditional Practice Gaining Recognition as a Global... 1998   Yes
Lynne Marie Kohm ; and Britney N. Brigner Women and Assisted Suicide: Exposing the Gender Vulnerability to Acquiescent Death 4 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 241 (1998) Most he's helped were female. And therein lies a warning. Assisted suicide poses a particular threat to women. I have decided the quality of life is not worth a dime. . . . I have nothing left to give to anyone anymore. This epitaph was written by 39-year-old Rebecca Badger, an assisted suicide patient aided by Dr. Kevorkian. Before her death,...; Search Snippet: ...Cardozo Womens Law Journal Cardozo Women's Law Journal 1998 Article Women and Assisted Suicide: Exposing the Gender Vulnerability to Acquiescent Death Lynne Marie Kohm [Fna1] ; and Britney... 1998   Yes
Angela Dordau , Brenda Gunn Women in the Law: Stories of Texas Legal Trailblazers 61 Texas Bar Journal 86 (January, 1998) THOUGH WOMEN BEGAN TO EARN LAW DEGREES in Texas around the turn of the century, they could not participate in a fundamental part of the judicial system--sitting on a jury--until 1954. Today women make up about one-third of the Texas Bar. They serve on courts at all levels and are executives and partners in prestigious firms and multi-national...; Search Snippet: ...39156 Texas Bar Journal Texas Bar Journal January, 1998 Feature Women in the Law: Stories of Texas Legal Trailblazers Angela Dordau... 1998   Yes
Carole Shapiro Women Lawyers in Celluloid, Rewrapped 23 Vermont Law Review 303 (Winter, 1998) This essay is an expansion of the talk I gave at Vermont Law School on April 4, 1998 as a panelist at the symposium Women Making Waves: A Celebration of Twenty-Five Years of Women at Vermont Law School. In this essay, I revisit the topic of the depiction of women lawyers in film that I explored in an earlier law review article. Using the framework...; Search Snippet: ...Celebration of 25 Years of Women at Vermont Law School Women Lawyers in Celluloid, Rewrapped Carole Shapiro [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1998... 1998   Yes
Selma Moidel Smith Women Lawyers: a Century of Achievement 9-FALL Experience 6 (Fall, 1998) An anniversary year will soon commence. The event to be celebrated is the 1899 founding of the first nationwide association of women lawyers in the United States. In this centennial age, when the presence of women in the law has become a daily reality, let us revisit a time when women lawyers were an innovation. Let us look back to the formative...; Search Snippet: ...Experience 6 1998 Wl 797688 Experience Experience Fall, 1998 Feature Women Lawyers: a Century of Achievement Selma Moidel Smith [Fna1] Copyright... 1998   Yes
Mary Becker Women, Morality, and Sexual Orientation 8 UCLA Women's Law Journal 165 (Spring-Summer 1998) In this Article, Professor Becker argues that heterosexual relationships are more problematic for women than lesbian relationships, particularly when such relationships are viewed in terms of their tendency to objectify the other. She discusses how current moral norms concerning the inferiority of homosexuality to heterosexuality enable men to...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium [Fna1] Queer Matters: Emerging Issues in Sexual Orientation Law Women, Morality, and Sexual Orientation Mary Becker [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1998... 1998   Yes
Michelle Oberman , Margie Schaps Women's Health and Managed Care 65 Tennessee Law Review 555 (Winter, 1998) C1-5Table of Contents L1-5 I. L2-4,T4Introduction 555 II. L2-4,T4Gender Bias in the Health Care Finance Structure 557 A. L3-4,T4Women's Access to Health Care Services 557 1. Women's Access to Health Insurance. 557 2. Women's Enrollment in Managed Care Plans. 559 B. L3-4,T4Breadth of Coverage and Women's Health Needs 562 1. Covered Services Under...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 567406 Tennessee Law Review Tennessee Law Review Winter, 1998 Women's Health and Managed Care Michelle Oberman [Fna1] Margie Schaps [Fnaa1... 1998   Yes
Mark Kelman (Why) Does Gender Equity in College Athletics Entail Gender Equality? 7 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 63 (Fall 1997) Title IX legally commits us to gender equity in the allocation of resources to male and female athletes. One thing that this has come to mean, in practice, is that the vast bulk of universities and colleges must spend roughly as much per capita on varsity athletic programs for the women enrolled in the school as they do for men to be fully...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law and Women's Studies Fall 1997 Article (Why) Does Gender Equity in College Athletics Entail Gender Equality? Mark Kelman [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 University of Southern... 1997    
Adrien Katherine Wing A Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women 60 Albany Law Review 943 (1997) I. Introduction. 944 II. Critical Race Feminism. 946 A. Conceptualizing Violence Using a Critical Race Feminist Approach: Outside/Inside Dichotomy and Spirit Injury. 951 III. Social and Legal Conditions. 954 A. South Africa. 954 1. Violence. 957 B. Palestine. 959 1. Violence. 964 IV. International Law: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...; Search Snippet: ...And Culture in the New International Order a Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women Adrien Katherine Wing [Fna] Copyright (C) 1997 Albany Law Review... 1997 African/Black American Yes
Rebecca Korzec A Feminist View of American Elder Law 28 University of Toledo Law Review 547 (Spring, 1997) ANY discussion of contemporary American elder law must consider gender issues. A number of gender concerns are readily discernible, including workplace and family issues. Significantly, sex-based disparities are increasing within the elderly population. In turn, these disparities exacerbate problems of fairness and equity in meeting...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review University of Toledo Law Review Spring, 1997 a Feminist View of American Elder Law Rebecca Korzec [Fna1] Copyright ©... 1997    
Kevin L. Hopkins A Gospel of Law 30 John Marshall Law Review 1039 (Summer 1997) Derrick Bell is no stranger to civil rights activists, the Black community and the legal academy. Over the last three decades his involvement and participation in civil rights litigation and his numerous scholarship in the areas of Race and Constitutional Law have placed him in the forefront of Critical Race Theory. In Gospel Choirs: Psalms of...; Search Snippet: ...Sexism and Notions of Patriarchy. To Do This, He Challenges Black Americans to Critically Review Current Black Male and Female Relationships and Gender Roles. He Argues That the Strengthening of the Black Community... 1997 African/Black American  
W. David Koeninger A Room of One's Own and Five Hundred Pounds Becomes a Piece of Paper and "Get a Job": Evaluating Changes in Public Housing Policy from a Feminist Perspective 16 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 445 (1997) When Dantrell Davis, a seven-year-old boy, was shot and killed by a gang member while walking to elementary school in October 1992, the Chicago public housing development called Cabrini-Green became known to the entire country. The incident received such attention because it provided the public with a neat reminder of everything that was wrong with...; Search Snippet: ...A Job: Evaluating Changes in Public Housing Policy from a Feminist Perspective W. David Koeninger [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 St. Louis... 1997    
Marilyn V. Yarbrough A Sporting Chance: the Intersection of Race and Gender 38 South Texas Law Review 1029 (October, 1997) I. Introduction. 1029 II. A Proposal For Change. 1031 III. If You Let Me Play Sports'. 1033 IV. The Intersection of Race and Gender. 1035 V. Conclusion. 1042; Search Snippet: ...And Value a Sporting Chance: the Intersection of Race and Gender Marilyn V. Yarbrough [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 South Texas Law... 1997    
Sonya Michel A Tale of Two States: Race, Gender, and Public/private Welfare Provision in Postwar America 9 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 123 (1997) The simultaneous expansion of employer-sponsored fringe benefits and of government welfare programs in the post-World War II period created what might be termed a public-private welfare state in the United States. These developments were continuous with the public-private partnership that had characterized American welfare provision since the...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law & Feminism 1997 a Tale of Two States: Race, Gender, and Public/private Welfare Provision in Postwar America Sonya Michel... 1997    
Patricia Hill Collins African-american Women and Economic Justice: a Preliminary Analysis of Wealth, Family, and African-american Social Class 65 University of Cincinnati Law Review 825 (Spring 1997) In contrast to countries that are far less affluent than the United States, the sizeable economic inequality characterizing social-class relations in the United States typically remains hidden. Buffered by a malleable social welfare state that expands and contracts in response to changing public perceptions of economic inequality and shaped by a...; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring 1997 Symposium on Race, Gender, and Economic Justice African- American Women and Economic Justice: a Preliminary Analysis of Wealth, Family, and African- American Social Class Patricia Hill Collins [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1997 University... 1997 African/Black American Yes
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... 1997 American Indian/Alaskan Native Yes
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... 1997   Yes
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... 1997 American Indian/Alaskan Native Yes
  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... 1997   Yes
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 Yes
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... 1997   Yes
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... 1997 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 Yes
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... 1997   Yes
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... 1997    
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... 1997   Yes
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... 1997    
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 Yes
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 Yes
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