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Gender Matters: Making The Case For Trans Inclusion, Nancy K. Knauer
Gender Matters: Making The Case For Trans Inclusion, Nancy K. Knauer
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “The transgender communities are producing an important and nuanced critique of our gender system. For community members, the project is self-constitutive and, therefore, has an immediacy that also marks the efforts of other marginalized groups who have attempted to make sense of the world through description, interrogation, and ultimately a program for transformation. The transgender project also has universalizing elements because, existing within the gender system, each one of us embodies a particular gender articulation. It is through this articulation that we define ourselves in relation to the gender we were assigned at birth, the gender we choose, the …
Women’S Representation On The Courts In The Republic Of South Africa, Ruth B. Cowan
Women’S Representation On The Courts In The Republic Of South Africa, Ruth B. Cowan
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Women And Microfinance: Why We Should Do More, Elissa Mccarter
Women And Microfinance: Why We Should Do More, Elissa Mccarter
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli
Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine
No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Over the past century and a half, the gendered essence of statutory rape has become deeply embedded in the purpose of the statute, extending its tentacles far beyond the statutory language, such that we can no longer extricate the male-on-female image from the formal law's requirements for prosecution. The reality of statutory rape is, however, far more complex than the traditional gender construct implies. Female sex abusers and male victims exist, in substantial numbers and varieties. Part I documents the statutory rape law's gendered essence, explaining the formal law's traditional gendered classification scheme, the Supreme Court's approval of that approach, …
Incarcerated Men And Women, The Equal Protection Clause, And The Requirement Of “Similarly Situated”, Natasha L. Carroll-Ferrary
Incarcerated Men And Women, The Equal Protection Clause, And The Requirement Of “Similarly Situated”, Natasha L. Carroll-Ferrary
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.