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| 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... |
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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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
1997 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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African/Black American |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
1997 |
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| 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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