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Patriarchal Violence, Rona Kaufman

Law Faculty Publications

For over a century, feminist theorists and activists have sought equality for women. They have aimed their efforts at the many distinct and related causes of women's inequality, among them gendered violence, sexual violence, domestic violence, and violence against women. Recognizing the need to understand problems in order to solve them, feminist theorists have devoted decades to conceptualizing various manifestations of such violence, ranging from private acts, such as sexual assault and intimate partner abuse, to public acts, such as the incarceration of mothers and the criminalization of pregnancy. In this article, I argue in favor of conceptualizing the many …

Criminalizing Prenatal Opioid Use: The Creation Of A Gender-Based Crime, Hannah French

Duquesne Law Review

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The Red Booklet On Feminist Equality. Instead Of A Manifesto, Dana Neacsu

Law Faculty Publications

If feminist legal theory were to face its legacy today, it would see that its tremendous value rests in its means more than in its ends. True, it has produced palpable results for its promoters domestically. It satisfied many feminists' discrete incremental requests, from Women's History Month to a limited right to bear or beget. While feminism partially satisfied well-identified gendered demands, it has ignored their “base” or frame. I argue that it has ignored basic calls for social justice. As shown here, how gendered demands are satisfied depends on whether basic demands for food and shelter have even been …

Civil Rights Act Of 1964 - Title Vii - Sex Discrimination - Pregnancy - Defenses, Margaret L. Cohen

Duquesne Law Review

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that an airline's employment policy mandating immediate unpaid maternity leave for all flight attendants upon discovery of pregnancy is sex discrimination but is justified by safety considerations.

Harriss v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 649 F.2d 670 (9th Cir. 1980).

Veterans' Preference Statutes: Do They Really Discriminate Against Women, Pat Labbadia Iii

Duquesne Law Review

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Civil Rights - Sex Discrimination - Title Ix Of The Education Amendments Of 1972 - Implied Right Of Action, Kathy Condo-Caritis

Duquesne Law Review

The Supreme Court of the United States has held that a private right of action can be implied for victims of sex discrimination under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Cannon v. University of Chicago, 441 U.S. 677 (1979).