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Relationships Of Representation In Voting Rights Act Jurisprudence, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Relationships Of Representation In Voting Rights Act Jurisprudence, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Paths Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

The Paths Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Choice, Dependence, And The Reinvigoration Of The Traditional Family, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Choice, Dependence, And The Reinvigoration Of The Traditional Family, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Destabilizing Domesticity, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Destabilizing Domesticity, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Social Construciton, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Social Construciton, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


A Constitutional Law For The Age Of Anxiety, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

A Constitutional Law For The Age Of Anxiety, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court, Visibility, And The Politics Of Presence, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

The Supreme Court, Visibility, And The Politics Of Presence, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Ideology And Women's Choices, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Ideology And Women's Choices, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Gender Discrimination And The Transformation Of Workplace Norms, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Gender Discrimination And The Transformation Of Workplace Norms, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Emotions In The Mobilization Of Rights, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Emotions In The Mobilization Of Rights, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

What is the relation between emotions and rights? It is not a question for which answers spring readily to mind, particularly for legal scholars. Rights may be conceived as inhering in, or being conferred upon, a post- Enlightenment, rationalist subject, who is hardly a creature brimming with affect. They may be associated, for some, with abstract claims of entitlement, and, for others, with intricate Hohfeldian frameworks that connect them with state or private obligations: neither association brings emotions to mind. Moreover, the literatures which explore the meaning, mobilization, recognition, and constitutive effects of rights provide little more guidance. Few acknowledge …


Feminist Lawyering And Legal Method, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Feminist Lawyering And Legal Method, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

A review article on books by Catharine A. MacKinnon: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law & Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1987 & 1989, respectively [see listings in IRPS No. 62]). These works offer a reassessment of feminist theory's impact on law, including the ways that legal inquiry is framed & legal arguments constructed, & the knowledge claims on which both are based. Innovations by feminist lawyers are reviewed, & their conceptions of legal roles & relationships are described. Future steps feminists need to take to bring about legal reform are outlined. K. …


New Jurisprudence Of Sexual Harassment, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

New Jurisprudence Of Sexual Harassment, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Analyzes legal scholarship and concepts since the 1970s; US; with three rejoinders. Covers the respectful person--depoliticizing sexual harassment, sexual harassment as a technology of sexism--the gendered dynamics, and sexual harassment as a means of perpetuating male power and masculine norms in the workplace.


Fighting Fire With Fire: Rethinking The Role Of Disgust In Hate Crimes, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Fighting Fire With Fire: Rethinking The Role Of Disgust In Hate Crimes, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Complex Claimants And Reductive Moral Judgments: New Patterns In The Search For Equality, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Complex Claimants And Reductive Moral Judgments: New Patterns In The Search For Equality, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Law In The Cultivation Of Hope, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren Feb 2013

Law In The Cultivation Of Hope, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Symposium: Law and Civil Society


From Autonomy To Agency: Feminist Perspectives On Self-Direction, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

From Autonomy To Agency: Feminist Perspectives On Self-Direction, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Feminists In International Human Rights: The Changer And The Changed, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Feminists In International Human Rights: The Changer And The Changed, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Some Realism About Electoralism: Rethinking Judicial Campaign Finance, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Some Realism About Electoralism: Rethinking Judicial Campaign Finance, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Law's Republicanism, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Law's Republicanism, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


On Reading And Using The Tenth Amendment, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

On Reading And Using The Tenth Amendment, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Constitution Of Women, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

The Constitution Of Women, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Respecting Women's Lives And Investigating Women's Consciousness: A Comment On Obiora, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Respecting Women's Lives And Investigating Women's Consciousness: A Comment On Obiora, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Reacts to feminist theory professor Amede Obiora's investigation of the practices of the ritual of female circumcision in Africa. Differences and similarities between Obiora and feminist Joan Nestle approach to the issue of female circumcision relating to feminism; Obiora and Nestle's approach to the history of the practice.


Third Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture: The Global Impact Of Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Third Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture: The Global Impact Of Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Lawyers And Social Change Lawbreaking: Confronting A Plural Bar, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Lawyers And Social Change Lawbreaking: Confronting A Plural Bar, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.