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Tracy M. Clements Prostitution and the American Health Care System: Denying Access to a Group of Women in Need 11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 49 (1996) I. Introduction. 50 A. Demographics of Prostitution. 52 B. Ideological Approaches to Prostitution. 53 1. The Conventional Morality View. 54 2. The Feminist Debate: Diverging Views. 55 a. The Radical Feminist Approach. 56 b. The Liberal Feminist Approach. 57 II. Occupational Hazards: Prostitutes' Special Health Care Needs. 57 A. Violence, Emotional...; Search Snippet: ...American Health Care System: Denying Access to a Group of Women in Need Tracy M. Clements [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley... 1996  
Ann R. Tickamyer Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women's Poverty and Welfare Policy in the United States 84 Kentucky Law Journal 721 (1995-1996) Seventy-five years after gaining suffrage and almost one hundred fifty years since the Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, proclaimed women's human rights and rights as citizens of the United States, women's ability to realize these rights remains circumscribed, ambiguous, and in...; Search Snippet: ...Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women's Poverty and Welfare Policy in the United States [Fna1] Ann... 1996  
Willy E. Rice Race, Gender, "Redlining," and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance: an Historical and Empirical Analysis of Consumers Who Sued Lenders and Insurers in Federal and State Courts, 1950-1995 33 San Diego Law Review 583 (May-June, 1996) A careful review of either privately or publicly assembled economic data discloses two economic truths: (1) Persistent unemployment is likely to develop among members of any racial or socioeconomic group when members of that group are regularly and systematically denied access to capital and credit; and, (2) small businesses--the primary creators...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review San Diego Law Review May-june, 1996 Race, Gender, Redlining, and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance... 1996  
Adrienne K. Wheatley Race, Gender, and Power in America: the Legacy of the Hillthomas Hearings. Edited by Anita Faye Hill and Emma Coleman Jordan. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1995. Pp. Xxxii, 302. $25.00. 19 Harvard Women's Law Journal 328 (Spring, 1996) Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings offers a series of explanations as to the social, cultural, and historical reasons why the Senate Judiciary Committee's reaction to Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment--and its concomitant receptivity to Clarence Thomas--was not only possible, but predictable. The...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1996 Book Review Race, Gender, and Power in America: the Legacy of the Hillthomas Hearings... 1996  
Robert D. Goldstein Reading Casey: Structuring the Woman's Decisionmaking Process 4 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 787 (Summer 1996) In this Article, Professor Goldstein argues that the primary concerns of Planned Parenthood v. Casey's joint opinion were expressive, not regulatory, in nature: to allow the state more leeway to structure the woman's decisionmaking process and to engage in its own speech regarding her exercise of her procreative choice. To this end, he identifies...; Search Snippet: ...Bill of Rights Journal Summer 1996 Reading Casey: Structuring the Woman's Decisionmaking Process Robert D. Goldstein [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 Publications... 1996  
Susan J. Scollay ; and Carolyn S. Bratt Reflections on the Limitations of Rational Discourse, Empirical Data, and Legal Mandates as Tools for the Achievement of Gender Equity in American Higher Education 84 Kentucky Law Journal 903 (1995-1996) Introduction. 904 I. The First Hundred Years. 905 II. First Wave: Initial Investigations of Gender in the Academy. 909 III. Legal Efforts to Secure Gender Equity on Campus. 911 IV. Second Wave: A Contemporary Case Study of Gender in One University. 913 V. Second Wave: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Institutional Investigations of Gender. 921...; Search Snippet: ...Data, and Legal Mandates as Tools for the Achievement of Gender Equity in American Higher Education Susan J. Scollay [Fna] ; And... 1996  
  Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias 84 Georgetown Law Journal 1657 (May, 1996) Professor Vicki C. Jackson Professor Susan Deller Ross Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Law Center Loretta Collins Argrett Asst. Attorney Genl, Tax Div. U.S. Department of Justice Robert E. Kopp Director, Appellate Staff, Civil Div. U.S. Department of Justice Brenda V. Smith, Esq. National Women's Law Center Anita Barondes,...; Search Snippet: ...May, 1996 Special Section Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias Copyright (C) 1996 by the Georgetown... 1996  
  Report of the Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias 64 George Washington Law Review 189 (January, 1996) James E. Coleman, Jr., Esquire Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Professor Todd D. Peterson George Washington University National Law Center The Honorable Vanessa Ruiz District of Columbia Court of Appeals Joseph M. Sellers, Esquire Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs Avis E. Buchanan, Esquire Washington Lawyers' Committee for...; Search Snippet: ...Race and Ethnicity to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity... 1996  
Catherine H. McCabe Ryan White Care Amendments: Mandatory Hiv Testing of Newborns and a Woman's Right to Privacy 1 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 373 (Winter 1996) Women of reproductive age comprise the fastest growing group infected with HIV in the United States today. Not surprisingly the incidence of AIDS has increased among infants who contract the virus perinatally. Currently 93 percent of all pediatric AIDS cases arise from vertical transmission of HIV, in which the HIV-infected mother passes the virus...; Search Snippet: ...White Care Amendments: Mandatory Hiv Testing of Newborns and a Woman's Right to Privacy Catherine H. Mccabe [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996... 1996  
Cullen P. Cowley Same-gender Harassment and Homosexuality in Title Vii Sexual Harassment Litigation 50 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 443 (Fall 1996) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) forbids sexual harassment involving victims and harassers of opposite genders. A growing number of Title VII plaintiffs, however, are now alleging same-gender sexual harassment--harassment by supervisors of the same gender as the plaintiff employee. Whether Title VII protects employees from...; Search Snippet: ...Of Urban and Contemporary Law Fall 1996 Recent Development Same- Gender Harassment and Homosexuality in Title Vii Sexual Harassment Litigation Cullen... 1996  
Beverly Horsburgh Schrdegreesodinger's Cat, Eugenics, and the Compulsory Sterilization of Welfare Mothers: Deconstructing an Old/new Rhetoric and Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-income Women of Color 17 Cardozo Law Review 531 (January, 1996) According to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, objects in the microscopic universe exist in potentia. An observer compels an electron to become real and to be located in space by introducing an apparatus that detects its presence. The relationship between the microscopic world and the measuring device is measured, not the underlying...; Search Snippet: ...And Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-income Women of Color Beverly Horsburgh [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 Yeshiva University... 1996  
Susan Bisom-Rapp Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-discrimination Law 6 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 323 (1996) During my third year of legal practice, a single spoken sentence led me to consider at length the position of women attorneys in Wall Street law firms. Commenting on my recent announcement that I was pregnant, a male partner assured me, In this department you will be treated as an attorney, not as a pregnant woman. I puzzled over this dichotomy,...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law 1996 Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-discrimination... 1996  
Cameron McGowan Currie, Aleta M. Pillick Sex Discrimination in the Selection and Participation of Female Jurors: a Post-j.e.b. Analysis 35 No. 1 Judges' Journal J. 2 (Winter, 1996) Folklore and stereotypes often shape jury selection tactics. Strategies are driven by a belief that male and female jurors reach different results. These attitudes persist at a time when the United States Supreme Court has been promoting the cross-sectional jury ideal, prohibiting the use of peremptory strikes in discriminatory fashion, and...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1996 Sex Discrimination in the Selection and Participation of Female Jurors: a Post-j.e.b. Analysis Cameron Mcgowan Currie Aleta M... 1996  
Darlene C. Goring Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action and Gender in Law School Academic Support Programs 84 Kentucky Law Journal 941 (1995-1996) This Article was developed from a qualitative investigation of racial and gender issues that arise in law school academic support programs. The qualitative investigation initially focused on the pervasiveness of racial and gender discrimination against students and faculty members involved with academic support programs. Sixteen female law students...; Search Snippet: ...Economic, Political, and Social Equality Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action and Gender in Law School Academic Support Programs [Fna] by Darlene C... 1996  
Penny M. Miller Staking Their Claim: the Impact of Kentucky Women in the Political Process 84 Kentucky Law Journal 1163 (1995-1996) For the past 200 years, women have faced tremendous obstacles in staking their claim to influence the politics of traditionalistic Kentucky. Their intermittent forceful impact has been felt throughout the Commonwealth in their various roles as voters, elected and appointed officeholders, policymakers, party activists, interest group participants,...; Search Snippet: ...And Social Equality Staking Their Claim: the Impact of Kentucky Women in the Political Process by Penny M. Miller [Fna] Copyright... 1996  
Leti Volpp Talking "Culture": Gender, Race, Nation, and the Politics of Multiculturalism 96 Columbia Law Review 1573 (October, 1996) The risks of talking culture are immense. The recent publication of an article by Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals' Dilemma, in the Columbia Law Review, raises significant questions concerning legal scholarship on the subjects of culture, gender, race, and multiculturalism. Legal academia...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Columbia Law Review October, 1996 Essay Talking Culture: Gender, Race, Nation, and the Politics of Multiculturalism Leti Volpp [Fna... 1996  
Jenny Rivera The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion Sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, September 14, 1995 4 Journal of Law & Policy 409 (1996) Good evening. First let me thank the Association of the Bar for inviting me tonight. I have been asked to address the strategic role of the Violence Against Women Act [VAWA] as part of a legal reform struggle. Although ten minutes is not much time to talk about decades of work, I would like to put this in a broader context. I recently returned...; Search Snippet: ...Be Fulfilled the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion... 1996  
Julie Goldscheid The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion Sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, September 14, 1995 4 Journal of Law & Policy 383 (1996) I would like formally to welcome you to our panel discussion on the 1994 Violence Against Women Act [VAWA] Civil Rights Remedy Panel discussing VAWA's legislative history, and policy implications, as well as addressing strategies for litigating under this new civil rights provision. I do not know how many of you know this, but yesterday was the...; Search Snippet: ...Be Fulfilled the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion... 1996  
Mary Elizabeth Powell The Claims of Women of Color under Title Vii: the Interaction of Race and Gender 26 Golden Gate University Law Review 413 (Spring, 1996) African-American women by virtue of our race and gender are situated within at least two systems of subordination: racism and sexism. This dual vulnerability does not simply mean that our burdens are doubled but instead, that the dynamics of racism and sexism intersect our lives to create experiences unique to us. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights...; Search Snippet: ...Gate University Law Review Spring, 1996 Comment the Claims of Women of Color under Title Vii: the Interaction of Race and Gender Mary Elizabeth Powell [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 by the Golden Gate University; Mary Elizabeth Powell African- American Women by Virtue of Our Race and Gender Are Situated Within at Least Two systems of subordination: racism... 1996 African/Black American
Kathi L. Kern The Cornerstone of a New Civilization: the First International Council of Women and the Campaign for "Social Purity" 84 Kentucky Law Journal 1235 (1995-1996) In 1888, American suffragists organized an International Council of Women (ICW) to acknowledge the fortieth anniversary of the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. In the process, they launched a movement of international feminism that would flourish well into the twentieth century. From its modest beginnings, the...; Search Snippet: ...Cornerstone of a New Civilization: the First International Council of Women and the Campaign for Social Purity by Kathi L. Kern... 1996  
Jack B. Weinstein The Effect of Sentencing on Women, Men, the Family, and the Community 5 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 169 (1996) There are two provisions in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines) that make no sense in the real world: one dictates that sex--along with race, national origin, and other factors--is not relevant to sentencing. The other asserts the general inappropriateness of considering family ties and responsibilities in determining the term of...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender and Law 1996 the Effect of Sentencing on Women, Men, the Family, and the Community [Fnd1] Jack B. Weinstein... 1996  
Gary LaFree, Christine Rack The Effects of Participants' Ethnicity and Gender on Monetary Outcomes in Mediated and Adjudicated Civil Cases 30 Law and Society Review 767 (1996) Researchers and policymakers have long been concerned about the extent to which such sociocultural factors as ethnicity and gender determine access to organizational rewards and constraints within legal systems. Scholars have also wondered whether less formal processes, such as those found in alternative dispute resolution, are especially...; Search Snippet: ...Society Review 1996 Article the Effects of Participants' Ethnicity and Gender on Monetary Outcomes in Mediated and Adjudicated Civil Cases Gary... 1996  
Sandra Day O'Connor The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 657 (April, 1996) It is difficult to imagine that only seventy-five years ago, a woman's right to vote was not protected by our Constitution. It is hard to remember that a right I have taken for granted all my life is one that some of our grandmothers never enjoyed. But it is important to remember such things, to celebrate the amendment that extended to women one of...; Search Snippet: ...Vanderbilt Law Review April, 1996 Essay the History of the Women's Suffrage Movement Sandra Day O'connor [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 By... 1996  
Debora L. Threedy The Madness of a Seduced Woman: Gender, Law, and Literature 6 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (Fall 1996) In an influential 1990 piece entitled Convergences: Law, Literature and Feminism, Carolyn Heilbrun and Judith Resnik write of their dismay that much of law-and-literature examines a world in which white men attempt from a place of power to speak as if for us all. Heilbrun and Resnik define their work as bringing feminism to a world of law and...; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Fall 1996 the Madness of a Seduced Woman: Gender, Law, and Literature Debora L. Threedy [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996... 1996  
Judith Olans Brown , Lucy A. Williams , Phyllis Tropper Baumann The Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Labor 6 UCLA Women's Law Journal 457 (Spring 1996) Mythic thinking constructs and permeates our culture, lodging in our collective unconscious, shaping and ultimately validating the way we look at the world. The word myth itself has many connotations. Myths can create reality and increase meaning, operating not as reflection but inspiration. Myths can also be reductive, abolishing complexities...; Search Snippet: ...Institutional Barriers to Women in the Workplace the Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Labor Judith Olans Brown [Fna] Lucy... 1996  
Scott Splittgerber The Need for Greater Regional Protection for the Human Rights of Women: the Cases of Rape in Bosnia and Guatemala 15 Wisconsin International Law Journal 185 (Fall, 1996) So pervasive and systematic are the human rights abuses against women that they are regarded as part of the natural order. [T]he struggle for women forms part of the general struggle to develop respect for the dignity of all human beings, and it is from the latter that it obtains the necessary force and legitimacy that will ultimately ensure its...; Search Snippet: ...Need for Greater Regional Protection for the Human Rights of Women: the Cases of Rape in Bosnia and Guatemala Scott Splittgerber... 1996  
Mothers for Justice , Giovanna Shay The Phenomenal Women of Mothers for Justice 8 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 193 (1996) You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassines upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high,...; Search Snippet: ...And Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 1996 the Phenomenal Women of Mothers for Justice Mothers for Justice [Fnd] Giovanna Shay... 1996  
Jenny Rivera The Violence Against Women Act and the Construction of Multiple Consciousness in the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements 4 Journal of Law & Policy 463 (1996) Cuando las multitudes corran alborotadas dejando atrás cenizas de injusticias quemadas, y cuando con la tea de las siete virtudes, tras los siete pecados, corran las multitudes, contra ti y contra todo lo injusto y lo inhumano, yo iré en medio de ellas con la tea en la mano. The enactment of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994 was,...; Search Snippet: ...1994: a Promise Waiting to Be Fulfilled the Violence Against Women Act and the Construction of Multiple Consciousness in the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements [Fna1] Jenny Rivera [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1996 by The...; Search Snippet: Introduction 36 Section One: the Dialogic Problem 38 A. the Accusations 39 B. the Feminist Response 50 1996  
Peter Margulies The Violence of Law and Violence Against Women 8 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 179 (Spring/Summer, 1996) Like the words of most prophets, Robert Cover's work resists generalities. Consider Cover's view of insular communities as law-creating, or jurisgenerative, coupled with his view of courts as law-destroying, or jurispathic. This Article argues that by advancing such a stark vision, Cover limited the role of courts in combating pervasive ideologies...; Search Snippet: ...Spring/summer, 1996 the Violence of Law and Violence Against Women Peter Margulies Copyright (C) 1996 by the Yeshiva University; Peter... 1996  
Constance Backhouse The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-century Canada 14 Law and History Review 315 (Fall, 1996) Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, provided the setting, in May 1912, for two widely publicized trials that highlighted the explosive fusion between race, gender, and class in early twentieth-century Canada. The prosecutions were based on a Saskatchewan statute passed several weeks earlier, An Act to Prevent the Employment of Female Labour in Certain...; Search Snippet: ...History Review Law and History Review Fall, 1996 the White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-century Canada... 1996  
Amina Wadud Towards a Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Social Justice: Race, Class and Gender 12 Journal of Law and Religion 37 (1995-1996) From the onset, one must dispel the idea that addressing gender issues or referring to women and woman is marginal to larger considerations of civil society and current global dynamics. Double standards with regard to images and treatment of women are indicators of distorted visions of social justice. Without remorse, women are often consigned...; Search Snippet: ...Towards a Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Social Justice: Race, Class and Gender Amina Wadud [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Hamline University; Amina... 1996  
Felicia E. Franco Unconditional Safety for Conditional Immigrant Women 11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 99 (1996) Domestic violence in the United States continues at epidemic levels. Frightening statistics leap from the morning newspaper and the nightly television newscast. Four million women are battered in the United States every year. A woman is beaten in the United States every eighteen minutes. Thirty percent of all female murder victims are killed by...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Women's Law Journal 1996 Unconditional Safety for Conditional Immigrant Women Felicia E. Franco [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley Women's Law... 1996  
Wendy L. Wilbanks Union Power, Soul Power: Intersections of Race, Gender and Law 26 Golden Gate University Law Review 437 (Spring, 1996) During the past thirty years, American intellectuals have become increasingly disillusioned with the labor union as an instrument of social change. This disillusionment occurs against the backdrop of a sharp decline in the unionized sector of the labor force and, more recently, mounting industrial defeats and political setbacks. Despite their...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Comment Union Power, Soul Power: [Fn1] Intersections of Race, Gender and Law Wendy L. Wilbanks [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 By... 1996  
Elizabeth L. Larson United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace (Beijing, China: September 1995) 10 Emory International Law Review 695 (Winter 1996) The United Nations recently held one of the largest conferences in its history, the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing Conference) which convened in Beijing, China, from 4 through 15 September 1995. During the plenary sessions, conference delegates heard governments from around the world announce their commitments to women's rights. During...; Search Snippet: ...1996 December 1996 Comment United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace (Beijing, China: September 1995... 1996  
Lucille M. Ponte United States V. Virginia: Reinforcing Archaic Stereotypes about Women in the Military under the Flawed Guise of Educational Diversity 7 Hastings Women's Law Journal 1 (Winter, 1996) [T]here is no deformity of human character from which we turn with deeper loathing than from a woman forgetful of her nature, and clamorous for the vocation and rights of men. This spring, the Supreme Court will be considering whether the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) may continue to admit only males and require women to attend a separate...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1996 United States V. Virginia: Reinforcing Archaic Stereotypes about Women in the Military under the Flawed Guise of Educational Diversity... 1996  
Francisco Valdes Unpacking Hetero-patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to its Origins 8 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 161 (Winter 1996) This Article traces and critiques the early formalization of the Euro-American sex/gender system. It seeks to illuminate the evolution of historical biases in American law and society that continue to dominate and destabilize sex/gender relations. As such, this Article is a prequel -- it provides the origins of a story already partially told...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Unpacking Hetero-patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to its Origins Francisco Valdes [Fna] Copyright ©... 1996  
Jean Montoya What's So Magic[al] about Black Women? Peremptory Challenges at the Intersection of Race and Gender 3 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 369 (1996) This Article addresses the evolving constitutional restraints on the exercise of peremptory challenges in jury selection. Approximately ten years ago, in the landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause forbids prosecutors to exercise race-based peremptory challenges, at least when the...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender & Law 1996 What's So Magic[al] about Black Women? [Fnd1] Peremptory Challenges at the Intersection of Race and Gender Jean Montoya [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 by the University Of... 1996 African/Black American
Melissa Hooper When Domestic Violence Diversion Is No Longer an Option: What to Do with the Female Offender 11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 168 (1996) The legal status of traditionally disadvantaged women is in constant flux. We hope this Recent Developments section will provide news and updates on current events affecting the legal rights of underrepresented women. We also hope to inspire more in-depth scholarly analysis of these topics. Since 1979, many domestic violence offenders have been...; Search Snippet: ...Is No Longer an Option: What to Do with the Female Offender Melissa Hooper [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley Women's Law... 1996  
Rodney K. Smith When Ignorance Is Not Bliss: in Search of Racial and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics 61 Missouri Law Review 329 (Spring 1996) In popular American parlance, we commonly refer to an athlete as a jock. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary notes that the formal definition of jock is a jockstrap. The informal definition, in turn, is an athlete. Using the term jock to describe an athlete certainly has sexist, and perhaps even racial, implications. Given this...; Search Snippet: ...When Ignorance Is Not Bliss: in Search of Racial and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics Rodney K. Smith [Fna] Copyright ©... 1996  
Sheila Lloyd When Race Is Not Enough: a Review of Judy Scales-trent's Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community 4 Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy 37 (1996) In writing of her liminality as a black woman who looks white, Judy Scales-Trent in Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community refers to her recurrent phantom pain--presumedly arising from her missing color or from her destabilized racial identity. This trope suggests that race and color serve as limbs that give us support and a...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Judy Scales-trent's Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Sheila Lloyd [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 By... 1996 African/Black American
Juliet J. McKenna Where Ignorance Is Not Bliss: a Proposal for Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women 7 Stanford Law and Policy Review 133 (Summer, 1996) We are dealing with the solution of a problem where ignorance is not bliss but is misfortune, and where, therefore, it is folly not to be wise. -- Dr. Egbert Crandin On November 3, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a federal study which indicated that zidovudine (AZT) treatment during pregnancy could reduce by...; Search Snippet: ...Not Bliss: a Proposal for Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women Juliet J. Mckenna Copyright (C) 1996 by the Board Of... 1996  
Victoria F. Nourse Where Violence, Relationship, and Equality Meet: the Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Remedy 11 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Summer, 1996) The 1994 signing of the Violence Against Women Act represented the culmination of a four-year struggle of politics, law, and understanding. Many stories could be written about this legislative effort: stories about political fortunes, personal perseverance, and daring backroom maneuvering. But the legal story, one now being played out in the...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Where Violence, Relationship, and Equality Meet: the Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Remedy Victoria F. Nourse [Fna] Copyright ©... 1996  
Elizabeth B. Cooper Why Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns must Fail: a Legal, Historical, and Public Policy Analysis 3 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 13 (1996) The debate surrounding mandatory HIV testing of newborns and pregnant women requires an understanding of the historical context of women in the epidemic. Although the epidemic first was recognized in gay men in 1981, anecdotal reports reveal that women already were dying from what seems to have been HIV-related symptomatology. Indeed, in Gena...; Search Snippet: ...Women's Law Journal 1996 Why Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns must Fail: a Legal, Historical, and Public Policy... 1996  
  Women and Diversity in Adr: a Roundtable 51-SEP Dispute Resolution Journal 65 (April/September, 1996) Mr. Slate: Good morning. I'm Bill Slate, president and C.E.O. of the American Arbitration Association. I must say that as I walked into the Penn Club this morning I thought about how appropriate it is that an institution associated with my alma mater is where we are holding this meeting. Penn was one of the more enlightened schools among the Ivies...; Search Snippet: ...Dispute Resolution Journal Dispute Resolution Journal April/september, 1996 Feature Women and Diversity in Adr: a Roundtable Copyright (C) 1996 By... 1996  
Pauline C. Reich Women and the Law: an Annotated Internet-based Bibliography for U.s. and International Legal Research 6 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 143 (Fall 1996) While teaching a course entitled, Women and the Law at one of Japan's leading universities, it suddenly occurred to me that there was a need to provide students with more current materials in English. Although the various Japanese libraries have excellent collections in English and in Japanese, it seemed that what was appearing on the Internet in...; Search Snippet: ...Law Texas Journal of Women and the Law Fall 1996 Women and the Law: an Annotated Internet-based Bibliography for U.s... 1996  
Kelly Lucas Women in the Law: Coming of Age 40-AUG Res Gestae 30 (August, 1996) Describing her role as the female member of a legendary dance duo, Ginger Rogers once said she had to do everything Fred Astaire did, just backwards and in high heels! Much like Rogers, women practicing law say that obstacles which require them to work a little harder than their male counterparts just to be considered equally competent continue to...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Wl 538841 Res Gestae Res Gestae August, 1996 Feature Women in the Law: Coming of Age Kelly Lucas Copyright ©... 1996  
Joel F. Handler Women, Families, Work, and Poverty: a Cloudy Future 6 UCLA Women's Law Journal 375 (Spring 1996) The dramatic entry of women into the paid labor force is both good news and bad news. Clearly, it is a great sign of progress that women are striving towards economic and social independence. Although impressive gains have been made, there is still a long way to go -- in both the Third World and the more industrialized nations as well. But in part,...; Search Snippet: ...Spring 1996 Symposium Institutional Barriers to Women in the Workplace Women, Families, Work, and Poverty: a Cloudy Future Joel F. Handler... 1996  
Walter Berns Women: an Uncertain Fit for the Multicultural Movement? 19 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 733 (Spring, 1996) Initially, consider the meaning of the word culture. That word derives from two Latin wordscultura, meaning cultivation, and cultus, meaning worship. People often speak of cultivation of the soil or animals, and even of microscopic organisms. Sometimes, however, people refer to cultivation of the mind, taste, and manners. The word is employed in...; Search Snippet: ...Society Lawyers Convention Panal Iii: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Law Women: an Uncertain Fit for the Multicultural Movement? Walter Berns [Fna1... 1996 Hispanic/Latinx American
  Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography 3 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 135 (1996) Abortion. 135 AIDS. 141 Battered Women. 145 Biotechnology. 148 Child Abuse. 153 Discrimination. 157 Employment. 169 Family. 171 Gay Rights. 182 Health. 190 Juvenile Rights. 193 Miscellaneous. 197 Pornography. 216 Rape. 217 Women. 219; Search Snippet: ...754074 Cardozo Womens Law Journal Cardozo Women's Law Journal 1996 Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography Copyright (C) 1996 by the Yeshiva University... 1996  
Berta Esperanza HernÁndez-Truyol Women's Rights as Human Rights--rules, Realities and the Role of Culture: a Formula for Reform 21 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 605 (1996) From the first dawn of life unto the grave, Poor womankind's in every state a slave. We will our rights in learning's world maintain; Wilt's empire now shall know a female reign. Beijing, China. Tuesday, September 5, 1995. Beijing International Conference Center (BICC). The afternoon plenary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women:...; Search Snippet: ...Articles Dedicated to Women in the International Human Rights Arena Women's Rights as Human Rights--rules, Realities and the Role Of... 1996  
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