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| Mairi N. Morrison |
May it Please Whose Court?: How Moot Court Perpetuates Gender Bias in the "Real World" of Practice |
6 UCLA Women's Law Journal 49 (Fall 1995) |
The spring ritual of Moot Court, in which first-year law students write and argue an appellate brief to a panel of judges consisting of both academics and practitioners, has a profound impact on each student's developing impression of what it means to be a lawyer. Moot Court disadvantages law students, particularly women students, in replication of...; Search Snippet: ...1995 May it Please Whose Court?: How Moot Court Perpetuates Gender Bias in the Real World of Practice Mairi N. Morrison... |
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| Linda L. Ammons |
Mules , Madonnas, Babies, Bath Water, Racial Imagery and Stereotypes: the African -American Woman and the Battered Woman Syndrome |
1995 Wisconsin Law Review 1003 (1995) |
Introduction. 1004 I. Battered Woman Syndrome and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. 1008 A. Plight of Battered Black Women. 1017 II. The African Woman in America. 1030 A. Paternalism, Pedestals and Presumptions: No Mirror Images for African-American Women. 1034 III. Stereotypes: The Impact of Historical Cultural Representations. 1045 IV. Stereotypes...; Search Snippet: ...Fna] , Madonnas, Babies, Bath Water, Racial Imagery and Stereotypes: the African - American Woman and the Battered Woman Syndrome Linda L. Ammons [Fnaa] Copyright (C) 1995 University Of... |
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| Odeana R. Neal |
Myths and Moms: Images of Women and Termination of Parental Rights |
5-FALL Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 61 (Fall, 1995) |
For most of us, the word mother evokes a myriad of often conflicting images and emotions, expectations and disappointments, and gratitude and blame. What a mother is -- our own mothers and the class of people who are mothers -- means much more than that a woman has given birth. We expect mothers to provide their children with all the love,...; Search Snippet: ...Policy Fall, 1995 National Issues Myths and Moms: Images of Women and Termination of Parental Rights Odeana R. Neal [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| George P. Choundas |
Neither Equal Nor Protected: the Invisible Law of Equal Protection, the Legal Invisibility of its Gender-based Victims |
44 Emory Law Journal 1069 (Summer, 1995) |
We disagree with the trial court's assessment [that ORS 106.155 is unconstitutional in that it denies equal protection of laws in that it gives greater protection to a victim who is assaulted because of his race, color, religion, or national origin than to another person who is assaulted for some other reason.] The statute does not offer more...; Search Snippet: ...Invisible Law of Equal Protection, the Legal Invisibility of its Gender-based Victims George P. Choundas [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1995 By... |
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| Jonathan M. Eisenberg |
Nih Promulgates New Guidelines for the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Medical Research |
10 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 183 (1995) |
Some medicines, such as penicillin, seem to benefit humans regardless of gender, race, or other demographic factors. However, other medicines and treatments have varying effects on people of different demographic groups. For example, we know that certain diet pills increase women's, but not men's, blood pressure; and that white people require...; Search Snippet: ...Recent Development Nih Promulgates New Guidelines for the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Medical Research Jonathan M. Eisenberg [Fnd] Copyright... |
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| Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Pornography Left and Right |
30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 143 (Winter, 1995) |
In a telling convergence between left and right, Rush Limbaugh, a conservative commentator, recently said that I say all sex is rape, repeating a lie that Playboy, a glossy men's sex magazine with liberal politics and literary pretensions, has been pushing for years. This is a lie, rather than a mistake, on the assumption that they both read my...; Search Snippet: ...Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992) and Edward De Grazia, Girls Lean Back Everywhere: the Law of Obscenity and the Assault... |
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| Laura T. Kessler |
Ppi, Patriarchy, and the Schizophrenic View of Women: a Feminist Analysis of Welfare Reform in Maryland |
6 Maryland Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 317 (1995) |
In July 1992, the Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR) overhauled the state's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program by establishing the Primary Prevention Initiative (PPI). Under PPI, women who receive AFDC are sanctioned monetarily if their children do not attend school on a regular basis, receive up-to-date...; Search Snippet: ...Legal Issues 1995 Ppi, Patriarchy, and the Schizophrenic View of Women: a Feminist Analysis of Welfare Reform in Maryland Laura T. Kessler [Fna1... |
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| D. Kelly Weisberg |
Professional Women and the Professionalization of Motherhood: Marcia Clark's Double Bind |
6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 295 (Summer 1995) |
[T]he Simpson case has become far more than a murder trial. It is a primer on society, whether the topic be race relations, the justice system or working women. In the background of the O.J. Simpson trial lurks a mini-drama. This drama will have long-lasting consequences but not for O.J. Simpson. Rather, it will affect the lives of two small boys...; Search Snippet: ...Womens Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 1995 Professional Women and the Professionalization of Motherhood: Marcia Clark's Double Bind [Fnd... |
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| Valerie Fontaine |
Progress Report: Women and People of Color in Legal Education and the Legal Profession |
6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 27 (Winter 1995) |
Formal barriers to entering legal education and the legal profession have crumbled over the past twenty-five years, but serious problems of gender and racial bias remain. Although the numbers of women and people of color who are law students, professors, and practitioners have increased dramatically, equal access across gender and racial lines to...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Winter 1995 Progress Report: Women and People of Color in Legal Education and the Legal... |
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| Kevin R. Johnson |
Public Benefits and Immigration: the Intersection of Immigration Status, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class |
42 UCLA Law Review 1509 (8/1/1995) |
Introduction. 1510 I. Menaces to Society: Public Charges, Welfare Mothers, and Criminal Aliens'. 1519 A. Immigrants and Public Benefits: A History of Fear. 1519 B. The Ineligibility of Undocumented Persons for Most Major Federal Public Assistance Programs. 1528 C. Outlaw Aliens': Benefit Recipients and Criminals. 1531 D. Immigration Benefit...; Search Snippet: ...Public Benefits and Immigration: the Intersection of Immigration Status, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class Kevin R. Johnson [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995 Regents... |
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| Walteen Grady Truely , Martha F. Davis |
Public Education Programs for African-american Males: a Gender Equity Perspective |
21 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 725 (1994-1995) |
Introduction I. Education Proposals Addressing the Crisis of African-American Males. 728 A. The Range of Proposals. 729 1. System-Wide Education Restructuring. 729 2. African-American Male Advocates. 730 3. Single-Sex Schools. 730 B. Research on Single-Sex and Single-Race Schooling. 731 II. Women's Educational Equity Concerns. 732 A. The Nature of...; Search Snippet: ...A Colloquium on Public Education Reform Public Education Programs for African- American Males: a Gender Equity Perspective Walteen Grady Truely [Fna] Martha F. Davis [Fnaa... |
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| Jenny Rivera |
Puerto Rico's Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Law and the United States Violence Against Women Act of 1994: the Limitations of Legislative Responses |
5 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 78 (1995) |
[O]ur judicial systems are currently ineffective instruments in their intervention in situations of domestic violence against women. They do not offer, for now, alternatives or remedies to women victimized by this form of violence. Annually, three to four million women are targets of violence by their intimate partners or spouses. The women who...; Search Snippet: ...Prevention and Intervention Law and the United States Violence Against Women Act of 1994: the Limitations of Legislative Responses [Fnd1] Jenny... |
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| Derk B.K. VanRaalte IV |
Punitive Policies: Constitutional Hazards of Non-consensual Testing of Women for Prenatal Drug Use |
5 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 443 (Summer 1995) |
Charleston , Oct. 5, 1993 - In the first case of its kind in the nation, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy today urged the federal district court in South Carolina to enjoin a racially discriminatory program that threatens prosecution of pregnant women or women in labor who test positive for cocaine. The $3 million class action lawsuit...; Search Snippet: ...Note Punitive Policies: Constitutional Hazards of Non-consensual Testing of Women for Prenatal Drug Use Derk B.k. Vanraalte Iv [Fnd] Copyright... |
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| Francisco Valdes |
Queers, Sissies, Dykes, and Tomboys: Deconstructing the Conflation of "Sex," "Gender," and "Sexual Orientation" in Euro-american Law and Society |
83 California Law Review 1 (1/1/1995) |
Foreword Notes on The Conflation'. 11 I. The Conflation as Triangle. 12 II. The Conflation, Language & Common (Mis)Understandings. 20 III. The Conflation & the Law. 23 IV. The Conflation, This Project & Legal Theory. 28 Chapter One Modern Culture: Codification & Internalization. 36 I. The Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation. 36 II....; Search Snippet: ...Queers, Sissies, Dykes, and Tomboys: Deconstructing the Conflation of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Euro-american Law and Society Francisco... |
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| Angela Browne, Ph.D. |
Reshaping the Rhetoric: the Nexus of Violence, Poverty, and Minority Status in the Lives of Women and Children in the United States |
3 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 17 (Fall, 1995) |
Angela Browne is a social psychologist with a particular expertise in family violence. Over the past 15 years, she has published and spoken on patterns of physical assault and threat in couple relationships, post-traumatic effects of physical and sexual assault on women and children, and homicides between intimate partners. Since 1988, she has...; Search Snippet: ...Of Violence, Poverty, and Minority Status in the Lives of Women and Children in the United States Angela Browne , Ph.d. Copyright... |
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| Susan Girardo Roy |
Restoring Hope or Tolerating Abuse? Responses to Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women |
9 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 263 (Spring, 1995) |
Elizabeth McCandless Murray had been the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her Irish immigrant husband for almost all of the eleven months of their marriage. She had done everything recommended to protect herself: she took self-defense courses, got a job and developed financial independence, and left her husband, initiating divorce...; Search Snippet: ...Hope or Tolerating Abuse? Responses to Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women Susan Girardo Roy [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1995 by the Georgetown... |
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| Michael E. Solimine , Susan E. Wheatley |
Rethinking Feminist Judging |
70 Indiana Law Journal 891 (Summer, 1995) |
For nearly two centuries no woman served on the United States Supreme Court and very few served on either the lower federal courts or state courts. Today, Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and burgeoning numbers of female judges have joined them on other federal and state courts. Contributing to this...; Search Snippet: ...370235 Indiana Law Journal Indiana Law Journal Summer, 1995 Rethinking Feminist Judging Michael E. Solimine [Fna1] Susan E. Wheatley [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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| Maria L. Ontiveros |
Rosa Lopez, David Letterman, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility |
6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 135 (Summer 1995) |
When California's heavy rains of 1994-95 washed out the only direct road between my home and my office, my commute escalated to three hours a day. Driving alone in the closed cocoon of my car, listening to the O.J. Simpson trial on the radio, much about the trial struck me as intensely personal. As a lawyer, I was naturally interested in the trial...; Search Snippet: ...Rosa Lopez, David Letterman, Christopher Darden, and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility Maria L. Ontiveros... |
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| Kingsley R. Browne |
Sex and Temperament in Modern Society: a Darwinian View of the Glass Ceiling and the Gender Gap |
37 Arizona Law Review 971 (1995) |
I. Introduction. 973 II. Sex Differences and Evolutionary Theory. 985 A. Natural Selection and Evolutionary Psychology. 985 B. Evolution of Temperamental Sex Differences. 990 C. Evidence of Differential Reproductive Strategies in Our Evolutionary Past. 1000 D. Evidence for the Continued Existence of the Evolved Psychological Mechanism. 1006 III....; Search Snippet: ...Society: a Darwinian View of the Glass Ceiling and the Gender Gap Kingsley R. Browne [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1995 by The... |
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| Margaret McIntyre |
Sex Panic or False Alarm? The Latest Round in the Feminist Debate over Pornography |
6 UCLA Women's Law Journal 189 (Fall 1995) |
For nearly two decades, feminists have debated whether pornography causes harm to women and what, if anything, should be done about it. Although the word pornography ostensibly refers to a relatively narrow class of sexually explicit material, the debate is more fundamentally about how to eliminate the social practice of defining women solely in...; Search Snippet: ...Sex Panic or False Alarm? The Latest Round in the Feminist Debate over Pornography a Review Essay on Catharine A. Mackinnon's... |
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| Kathryn Abrams |
Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory |
95 Columbia Law Review 304 (March, 1995) |
What consequences flow from characterizing women as pervasively constructed by male aggression? Over the past decade, dominance feminism has become the ascendant feminist legal theory, shaping the socially transformative legal claim for sexual harassment and helping women see the systematic oppression cloaked and perpetuated under the guise of...; Search Snippet: ...Review March, 1995 Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory Kathryn Abrams [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995 Directors Of... |
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| Jodi Danis |
Sexism and "The Superfluous Female": Arguments for Regulating Pre-implantation Sex Selection |
18 Harvard Women's Law Journal 219 (Spring, 1995) |
If, in the space of a generation or two, we have secured to mankind a better equilibrium of birth-rate, we shall have helped to make the world a far better place, and totally abolished that crying social evil, the superfluous female. -Mrs. Monteith Erskine, 1925 Current reproductive technology foreshadows a world populated with designer...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Spring, 1995 Recent Development Sexism and the Superfluous Female : Arguments for Regulating Pre-implantation Sex Selection Jodi Danis [Fna1... |
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| Robbie D. Steele |
Silencing the Deadly Ritual: Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation |
9 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 105 (Winter, 1995) |
As may be a drop of water in the ocean, or yet a teardrop in the sea, WE MUST proclaim out loud what all women murmur in thought denounce the crimes committed against women, mutilations that women endure with resignation offer resistance at every level active resistance effective resistance to all oppression whatever its source-unremitting Only by...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1995 Note Silencing the Deadly Ritual: Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation Robbie D. Steele [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1995 By... |
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| Fred Von Lohmann |
Single-sex Courses, Title Ix, and Equal Protection: the Case for Self-defense for Women |
48 Stanford Law Review 177 (11/1/1995) |
Stanford University first began offering Issues in Self-Defense for Women, in the 1980s, as an attempt to teach women how to defend themselves against sexual assault. As its title suggests, this course is open to women only. Despite a recent resurgence of interest in single-sex education, the concept of providing a limited number of gender...; Search Snippet: ...Ix, and Equal Protection: the Case for Self-defense for Women Fred von Lohmann [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995 Board of Trustees... |
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| Elaine Golin |
Solving the Problem of Gender and Racial Bias in Administrative Adjudication |
95 Columbia Law Review 1532 (10/1/1995) |
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) preside over hundreds of thousands of adjudications every year and their decisions affect the lives of millions of Americans. As the decisionmakers in the on-the-record hearings of federal administrative agencies, ALJs play an important role in overseeing the enforcement of federal law and the distribution of...; Search Snippet: ...Columbia Law Review October 1995 Note Solving the Problem of Gender and Racial Bias in Administrative Adjudication Elaine Golin Copyright ©... |
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| Beth E. Richie |
Stigma, Stereotypes, and Gender Entrapment: Violence Against Women and Poverty |
3 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 35 (Fall, 1995) |
Beth Richie is an Assistant Professor at Hunter College in New York City. She held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Research on Women and Gender and, since 1994, has served as Program Director for the Undergraduate Program in Community Health Education at Hunter College. In 1993, Dr. Richie was the...; Search Snippet: ...Journal on Fighting Poverty Fall, 1995 Symposium Stigma, Stereotypes, and Gender Entrapment: Violence Against Women and Poverty Beth E. Richie Copyright (C) 1995 by The... |
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| Isabelle R. Gunning |
Stories from Home: Tales from the Intersection of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation |
5 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 143 (Fall 1995) |
I am very pleased to be a part of this Conference, and especially to be part of a panel that explicitly marks the fact that talking about being a lesbian -- like talking about being a woman -- must be about intersectionality. Most of you are already familiar with the recent debates within feminist thought and jurisprudence concerning gender...; Search Snippet: ...Article Stories from Home: Tales from the Intersection of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation Isabelle R. Gunning [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995... |
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| Patricia Ireland |
Strategies for Taking Action: Political and Institutional Solutions to Poverty and Violence Against Women |
3 Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty 49 (Fall, 1995) |
Patricia Ireland is the president of the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist organization in the United States. Ms. Ireland's major contributions to NOW include organizing NOW activists to: defend women's access to abortion from violent attacks; elect a record number of women to political office; work more closely with other...; Search Snippet: ...Action: Political and Institutional Solutions to Poverty and Violence Against Women Patricia Ireland Copyright (C) 1995 by the Georgetown Journal On... |
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| Trlica Cosby |
Strictly Speaking: Viewing J.e.b. V. Alabama ex Rel. T.b. as Sub Silentio Application of Strict Scrutiny to Gender-based Classifications |
32 Houston Law Review 869 (Fall 1995) |
I. Introduction. 869 II. Recitation. 872 III. Analysis. 877 A. Background: Method and Procedure of Jury Selection. 877 B. The Development of a Standard of Review for Gender Classifications. 879 C. Laying a Foundation for Strict Scrutiny. 884 D. Reconciling Taylor v. Louisiana with the J.E.B. Decision. 888 IV. Future Effects on Peremptory...; Search Snippet: ...Rel. T.b. as Sub Silentio Application of Strict Scrutiny to Gender-based Classifications [Fna1] Trlica Cosby Copyright (C) 1995 Houston Law... |
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| Peter Michael Collins |
Taking Batson One Giant Step Further: the Court Prohibits Gender-based Peremptory Challenges in J.e.b. V. Alabama ex Rel. T.b. |
44 Catholic University Law Review 935 (Spring 1995) |
The United States Constitution grants to every criminal defendant accused of serious crimes the right to a jury trial, and preserves for every civil litigant the right to a jury trial where it existed at common law. The jury selection process is a complex mechanism designed to ensure that those selected will be fair and impartial decision-makers....; Search Snippet: ...Note Taking Batson One Giant Step Further: the Court Prohibits Gender-based Peremptory Challenges in J.e.b. V. Alabama ex Rel. T.b... |
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| Martha I. Morgan |
The Bitter and the Sweet: Feminist Efforts to Reform Nicaraguan Rape and Sodomy Laws |
26 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 439 (Spring/Summer, 1995) |
I. Introduction. 440 II. The Road to Reform. 444 III. Of Reform: Changes Regarding Rape and Related Sexual Offenses. 449 IV. Of Repression: Changes Regarding Sodomy. 459 V. Transformative Uses of Law. 472 A. Legislative Reform as a Tool for Social Change. 472 B. Litigation as a Tool for Social Change. 480 VI. Conclusion. 488; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Spring/summer, 1995 the Bitter and the Sweet: Feminist Efforts to Reform Nicaraguan Rape and Sodomy Laws Martha I... |
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| Katherine M. Franke |
The Central Mistake of Sex Discrimination Law:the Disaggregation of Sex from Gender |
144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Rev. 1 (November, 1995) |
Contemporary sex discrimination jurisprudence accepts as one of its foundational premises the notion that sex and gender are two distinct aspects of human identity. That is, it assumes that the identities male and female are different from the characteristics masculine and feminine. Sex is regarded as a product of nature, while gender is understood...; Search Snippet: ...Mistake of Sex Discrimination Law:the Disaggregation of Sex from Gender Katherine M. Franke [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1995 University of Pennsylvania... |
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| Patricia Hagler Minter |
The Failure of Freedom: Class, Gender, and the Evolution of Segregated Transit Law in the Nineteenth-century South |
70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 993 (1995) |
On August 27, 1881, the Reverend W. H. Gray, a black Baptist minister travelling to Cincinnati from his home in Lexington, Kentucky, purchased roundtrip first-class tickets over the Cincinnati Southern Railway. His wife Silena and their small child accompanied him. Their trip to Cincinnati proved uneventful; on their return, however, the brakeman...; Search Snippet: ...Personal Liberty and Private Law the Failure of Freedom: Class, Gender, and the Evolution of Segregated Transit Law in the Nineteenth... |
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| Stephen J. Schulhofer |
The Feminist Challenge in Criminal Law |
143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2151 (6/1/1995) |
Feminist criticism of criminal law and criminal justice administration has proliferated over the past decade and now touches scores of doctrinal, practical, and theoretical issues. These critiques and the associated proposals for reform are usually acknowledged to be controversial (and even radical) by proponents and opponents alike. Yet, across...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review University of Pennsylvania Law Review June 1995 the Feminist Challenge in Criminal Law Stephen J. Schulhofer [Fnd] Copyright ©... |
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| Jordan Herman |
The Fusion of Gay Rights and Feminism: Gender Identity and Marriage after Baehr V. Lewin |
56 Ohio State Law Journal 985 (1995) |
Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least--at least I mean what I say-- that's the same thing, you know. Looking back on judicial decisions, we are nonplussed. An unexpected opinion becomes explicable after it occurs. And, after it occurs, its significance and meaning change. The opinion...; Search Snippet: ...1995 Case Comment the Fusion of Gay Rights and Feminism: Gender Identity and Marriage after Baehr V. Lewin Jordan Herman Copyright... |
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| S. Elizabeth Foster |
The Glass Ceiling in the Legal Profession: Why Do Law Firms Still Have So Few Female Partners? |
42 UCLA Law Review 1631 (8/1/1995) |
When attorney Nancy Ezold won her lawsuit the victory was hailed as a landmark. Ezold was the first female associate to take a law firm to trial for denial of partnership based on sex discrimination. In ruling for Ezold, a federal district court found that she had been impermissibly discriminated against by a nearly all-male partnership because she...; Search Snippet: ...Legal Profession: Why Do Law Firms Still Have So Few Female Partners? S. Elizabeth Foster [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995 Regents Of... |
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| Sandra Farrington-Domingue |
The Intersection of Race and Gender and its Effects in the Workplace |
5 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 187 (Fall 1995) |
The workplace that I am most familiar with is the city of Los Angeles. I have been an employee of the city for more than twenty years, as a Building Mechanical Inspector and, since July 1993, as a staff member for Councilmember Jackie Goldberg. Presently, the city government is comprised of approximately forty-two departments. Of these forty-two...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Sexual Oreintation: Comment the Intersection of Race and Gender and its Effects in the Workplace Sandra Farrington-domingue [Fna... |
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The Invisible Women |
108 Harvard Law Review 953 (February, 1995) |
In Children of Choice, John Robertson explores a variety of modern reproductive technologies from the standpoint of procreative liberty: the freedom either to have children or to avoid having them (p. 22). Robertson's thorough examination of topics from abortion to genetic manipulation is praiseworthy, but his framework is troubling. Procreative...; Search Snippet: ...Review Harvard Law Review February, 1995 Book Note the Invisible Women Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies. By... |
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| Janice Schuetz, John D. Brady |
The Logic of Women on Trial |
69-OCT Florida Bar Journal 96 (October, 1995) |
Famous trials are rich sources of history, socially accepted beliefs, and rhetoric. The Logic of Women on Trial: Case Studies of Popular American Trials, by Janice Schuetz, is an interesting look at these subjects through felony trials of nine women. Using rhetorical analysis, Schuetz, a professor of communication, examines: a Salem witch trial in...; Search Snippet: ...Florida Bar Journal October, 1995 Column Books the Logic of Women on Trial Janice Schuetz John D. Brady Copyright (C) 1995... |
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| John R. Quinn |
The Lost Language of the Irishgaymale: Textualization in Ireland's Law and Literature (Or the Most Hidden Ireland ) |
26 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 553 (Spring 1995) |
Introduction. 555 I. Theoretical Considerations. 566 A. Constructionism v. Essentialism. 566 B. Elaine Showalter's Model of Muted Group Discourse. 579 C. The Gaymale. 584 D. The Irishmale. 593 E. The Irishgaymale. 600 II. The Substantive Textualization of the Irishgaymale: Law. 605 A. The Sodomy and Gross Indecency Statutes. 606 B. The Norris...; Search Snippet: ...Fn340] New Zealand, [Fn341] Mesoamerica, [Fn342] Turkey, [Fn343] among North American Indians, [Fn344] Jamaican, Jewish and Chinese Women, [Fn345] and Pacific Islanders, [Fn346] in Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Hong Kong, South Africa, Thailand... |
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| Virginia G. Drachman |
The New Woman Lawyer and the Challenge of Sexual Equality in Early Twentieth-century America |
28 Indiana Law Review 227 (1995) |
In 1917, Denver lawyer Mary Lathrop became the first woman admitted into the American Bar Association; in 1930, she confessed that she was tired of the equality she had achieved in the legal profession. Moreover, she yearned for the feminine privileges women lawyers had received in the past. Women have gained rights but they have lost privileges....; Search Snippet: ...Future: a Century of Legal Conflict and Development the New Woman Lawyer and the Challenge of Sexual Equality in Early Twentieth... |
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| Julia Epstein |
The Pregnant Imagination, Fetal Rights, and Women's Bodies: a Historical Inquiry |
7 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 139 (Winter, 1995) |
Competing historical and cultural understandings of the human body make clear that medicine and the law construe bodily truths from differing knowledge bases. Jurists rely virtually entirely on medical testimony to analyze biological data, and medical professionals are not usually conversant with the legal ramifications of their diagnoses. In early...; Search Snippet: ...In Law and Literature the Pregnant Imagination, Fetal Rights, and Women's Bodies: a Historical Inquiry Julia Epstein [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995... |
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| Anita L. Allen |
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix for Abortion Law: Reflections on Citizenship, Gender, and the Constitution |
18 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 419 (Spring, 1995) |
I. Introduction . 419 II. Second-class Citizenship . 424 A. The Consititution on Gender . 424 B. The Meaning of American Citizenship . 426 C. Life Before Privacy and Equality: An Example . 428 D. The Trivialization of Citizenship . 431 E. German Citizenship and Abortion Rights . 433 III. Equal Protection for Equal Citizenship . 435 A. An Equal...; Search Snippet: ...Proposed Equal Protection Fix for Abortion Law: Reflections on Citizenship, Gender, and the Constitution Anita L. Allen [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995... |
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| Deborah Jones Merritt |
The Status of Women on Law School Faculties: Recent Trends in Hiring |
1995 University of Illinois Law Review 93 (1995) |
The following two articles were presented at a panel discussion entitled Women and the Law, at the Rededication of the University of Illinois College of Law. In The Status of Women on Law School Faculties: Recent Trends in Hiring, Associate Dean Deborah J. Merritt analyzes data on tenure-track hiring at accredited law schools in the United...; Search Snippet: ...University of Illinois Law Review 1995 Remarks the Status of Women on Law School Faculties: Recent Trends in Hiring Deborah Jones... |
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| James Martin Truss |
The Subjection of Women . . . Still: Unfulfilled Promises of Protection for Women Victims of Domestic Violence |
26 Saint Mary's Law Journal 1149 (1995) |
I. Introduction. 1150 II. Macrocosm: A Culture of Violence and Domination. 1157 A. A Man's Right to Chastise His Wife: The Common-Law Rule of Thumb and Other Devices. 1157 B. Modern Institutional Abuse Against Women. 1160 III. Microcosm: The Battering Relationship. 1165 A. Profile of the Abuser. 1166 B. Abused Women and the Battered Woman...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Saint Mary's Law Journal 1995 Comment the Subjection of Women . . . Still: Unfulfilled Promises of Protection for Women Victims of Domestic Violence James Martin Truss Copyright (C) 1995... |
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| Rosemary C. Salomone |
The Ties That Bind: an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Gender, Ethnicity, and the Practice of Law |
3 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & The Law 177 (Fall, 1995) |
Over the past decade, fueled in part by Carol Gilligan's controversial book, In a Different Voice, both feminists and scholars of color have critically examined the law from the outsiders' perspective. Stretching methodological bounds, this interrelated body of scholarship has utilized narrative form to question the gender and racial implications...; Search Snippet: ...1995 Essay the Ties That Bind: an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Gender, Ethnicity, and the Practice of Law Rosemary C. Salomone [Fn1... |
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| Joseph D. Kuborn |
The Unconstitutionality of Gender Based Peremptory Challenges |
78 Marquette Law Review 1069 (Summer, 1995) |
Peremptory challenges by definition permit both the plaintiff and the defendant to strike a limited number of potential jury members without stating a reason. These challenges, which allow the striking party to remain silent on the reasons behind the strike, provide a potential platform for unconstitutional discrimination in the jury selection...; Search Snippet: ...Review Marquette Law Review Summer, 1995 Note the Unconstitutionality of Gender Based Peremptory Challenges the United States Supreme Court's Review Of... |
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| Ramona L. Paetzold , Rafael Gely |
Through the Looking Glass: Can Title Vii Help Women and Minorities Shatter the Glass Ceiling? |
31 Houston Law Review 1517 (1995) |
I. Introduction. 1518 II. Long-term Employment, Promotion, and Advancement. 1521 A. External and Internal Labor Markets. 1521 B. Is Opportunistic Behavior Blind to Color and Gender?. 1524 III. Title VII and Nontraditional Workers in ILMs. 1526 A. Proof Framework and Standards. 1528 1. Disparate treatment. 1528 2. Disparate impact.. 1531 B....; Search Snippet: ...Review 1995 Through the Looking Glass: Can Title Vii Help Women and Minorities Shatter the Glass Ceiling? Ramona L. Paetzold [Fna... |
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| Matthew L. Daniel |
Title Ix and Gender Equity in College Athletics: How Honesty Might Avert a Crisis |
1995 Annual Survey of American Law 255 (1995) |
There is a crisis threatening the future of college sports in America. And the unfortunate truth is that this crisis has emerged from the solution to the gender equity problem confronting institutions of higher education. After decades of inequities against women in educational fora, Congress, through the 1972 Educational Amendments (commonly...; Search Snippet: ...Survey of American Law 1995 Title Ix Title Ix and Gender Equity in College Athletics: How Honesty Might Avert a Crisis... |
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| Anika Rahman |
Toward Government Accountability for Women's Reproductive Rights |
69 Saint John's Law Review 203 (Winter-Spring 1995) |
Introduction: Women's Realities A woman from the Fiji Islands once said, I have six children and I am about to have my seventh one. I do not know how to explain to my husband that I do not wish to have any more. My mind would go racing as soon as I hear him climb into bed, all tired, he would start having sex with me. I don't know how long I can...; Search Snippet: ...Women's Rights as International Human Rights Toward Government Accountability for Women's Reproductive Rights Anika Rahman [Fna] Copyright (C) 1994 St. John's... |
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