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Sex & Surveillance: Gender, Privacy & The Sexualization Of Power In Prison, Teresa A. Miller Jan 2000

Sex & Surveillance: Gender, Privacy & The Sexualization Of Power In Prison, Teresa A. Miller

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In prison, surveillance is power and power is sexualized. Sex and surveillance, therefore, are profoundly linked. Whereas numerous penal scholars from Bentham to Foucault have theorized the force inherent in the visual monitoring of prisoners, the sexualization of power and the relationship between sex and surveillance is more academically obscure. This article criticizes the failure of federal courts to consider the strong and complex relationship between sex and surveillance in analyzing the constitutionality of prison searches, specifically, cross-gender searches.

The analysis proceeds in four parts. Part One introduces the issues posed by sex and surveillance. Part Two describes the sexually …


The Convergence Of The Critical Race Theory Workshop With Latcrit Theory: A History, Stephanie L. Phillips Jul 1999

The Convergence Of The Critical Race Theory Workshop With Latcrit Theory: A History, Stephanie L. Phillips

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Shifting Bottoms And Rotating Centers: Reflections On Latcrit Iii And The Black/White Paradigm, Athena D. Mutua Jul 1999

Shifting Bottoms And Rotating Centers: Reflections On Latcrit Iii And The Black/White Paradigm, Athena D. Mutua

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This essay chronicles my participation at the LatCrit III Conference and examines some of the issues raised. It touches on battles that rage within our efforts to build coalitions across boundaries of race and ethnicity, and it poses questions of centers, bottoms, and models.

Specifically, it asks: What group should be at the center of a given study or enterprise? Whose faces are at the bottom of the well and What model shall we use to analyze a given situation? The questions are complex, but LatCrit is attempting to address these complexities, not only in theory but in practice. Institutionally, …


Claiming Our Foremothers: The Legend Of Sally Hemings And The Tasks Of Black Feminist Theory, Stephanie L. Phillips Jan 1997

Claiming Our Foremothers: The Legend Of Sally Hemings And The Tasks Of Black Feminist Theory, Stephanie L. Phillips

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Sameness And Difference In A Law School Classroom: Working At The Crossroads, Judy Scales-Trent Jan 1992

Sameness And Difference In A Law School Classroom: Working At The Crossroads, Judy Scales-Trent

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The Daughters Of Job: Property Rights And Women's Lives In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts, Dianne Avery, Alfred S. Konefsky Jan 1992

The Daughters Of Job: Property Rights And Women's Lives In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts, Dianne Avery, Alfred S. Konefsky

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Gender And Specialization In The Practice Of Divorce Law, Richard J. Maiman, Lynn Mather, Craig A. Mcewen Jan 1992

Gender And Specialization In The Practice Of Divorce Law, Richard J. Maiman, Lynn Mather, Craig A. Mcewen

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Women Of Color And Health: Issues Of Gender, Community, And Power, Judy Scales-Trent Jul 1991

Women Of Color And Health: Issues Of Gender, Community, And Power, Judy Scales-Trent

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Commonalities: On Being Black And White, Different, And The Same, Judy Scales-Trent Jan 1990

Commonalities: On Being Black And White, Different, And The Same, Judy Scales-Trent

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Women In The Lawyering Process: The Complications Of Categories, Judy Scales-Trent Jan 1990

Women In The Lawyering Process: The Complications Of Categories, Judy Scales-Trent

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The Nature Of Domination And The Nature Of Women: Reflections On Feminism Unmodified (Review Essay), Lucinda M. Finley Jan 1988

The Nature Of Domination And The Nature Of Women: Reflections On Feminism Unmodified (Review Essay), Lucinda M. Finley

Book Reviews

Review of Catherine A. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987).


Choice And Freedom: Elusive Issues In The Search For Gender Justice (Review Essay), Lucinda M. Finley Mar 1987

Choice And Freedom: Elusive Issues In The Search For Gender Justice (Review Essay), Lucinda M. Finley

Book Reviews

Review of David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof & Marlene String Franks, Gender Justice (1986).