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“Breaking Bad” Contracts: Bargaining For Masculinity In Popular Culture, Lenora Ledwon
“Breaking Bad” Contracts: Bargaining For Masculinity In Popular Culture, Lenora Ledwon
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
This Article examines the award-winning television show, Breaking Bad, to illustrate how the idea of a contract in popular culture can become inflected with a style of retrograde masculinity. Deals in Breaking Bad take place in the classic contract imaginary, which resembles the classic Western shootout: two antagonists face each other down in a duel. The show interrogates the frontier thesis, with its links to the American Dream and dangerous masculinities, through the ruthless contracts of Walter White.
In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit
In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
The American public’s attention was first exposed to the practice of surrogacy in 1988 with the drama and verdict of the Baby M case. Over the last twenty-five years, the practice of surrogacy has slowly become increasingly socially accepted, and even welcomed. This evolution serves to emphasize the bizarre judicial and legislative silence regarding surrogacy that exists today in the vast majority of U.S. jurisdictions. In this Article, I describe and trace the dramatic revolution that took place during the recent decades, as the surrogacy practice has drastically changed from one viewed as problematic and rejected to a socially widespread …
Preventing The Birth Of Drug-Addicted Babies Through Contract: An Examination Of The C.R.A.C.K. Organization, Juli Horka-Ruiz
Preventing The Birth Of Drug-Addicted Babies Through Contract: An Examination Of The C.R.A.C.K. Organization, Juli Horka-Ruiz
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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Lovers' Contracts In The Courts: Forsaking The Minimum Decencies, Judith T. Younger
Lovers' Contracts In The Courts: Forsaking The Minimum Decencies, Judith T. Younger
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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Essentially A Mother, Jennifer S. Hendricks
Essentially A Mother, Jennifer S. Hendricks
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
This article connects the constitutional jurisprudence of the family to debates over reproductive technology and surrogacy. Despite the outpouring of literature on reproductive technologies, courts and scholars have paid little attention to the constitutional foundation of parental rights. Focusing on the structural/political function of parental rights, this article argues that a gestational mother has a constitutional claim to be recognized as a legal parent.
The article first discusses the "unwed father cases." Despite believing that natural sex differences justified distinctions in parental rights, the Supreme Court crafted a test giving men parental rights if they established relationships with their biological …