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Discovering Our Connections: Reflections On Race, Gender And The Other Tales Of Difference, Madelyn C. Squire
Discovering Our Connections: Reflections On Race, Gender And The Other Tales Of Difference, Madelyn C. Squire
Golden Gate University Law Review
This article is a reflective essay that was written as a result of the author's participation in a symposium held on September 12, 1992 at the American University Washington College of Law on "Discovering Our Connections: Race and Gender in Theory and Practice of the Law." The writer's panel was assigned the topic, "Philosophy, Morality and Foundations of Law" from which to address the symposium subject. The essay explains and addresses why African American women find it difficult to embrace the feminist agenda and reflects on whether there is common ground or some connection among the multivalent interests of race …
Autonomy And Community In Feminist Legal Thought, Susan G. Kupfer
Autonomy And Community In Feminist Legal Thought, Susan G. Kupfer
Golden Gate University Law Review
In Part I, following a brief analysis of the critique of liberal political theory, I argue that the theories of Fox-Genovese and West deny the felt experience of women in their own struggle to counteract the construct of gender; since women are "engendered" by social norms, they must first develop the subjective experience of autonomy, in which they seek to understand the inner direction of their authentic selves. Second, as I argue in Part II, the idea of community, much bandied about, is a concept which is ill-defined in most feminist thought. Further, the prescription for women's place as part …
Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law And Lesbian Legal Theory, Ruthann Robson
Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law And Lesbian Legal Theory, Ruthann Robson
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Article seeks to elucidate the confusion between sexuality and violence that confounds legal treatments of intra-lesbian violence. This confusion is both explicitly and implicitly revealed in judicial decisions and legislative enactments. A distinct but intertwined task of this Article is to situate intra-lesbian violence within the development of a lesbian legal theory. It is intra-lesbian violence that makes equally untenable either a separatist lesbian legal theory (eschewing all reference to a patriarchal legal system) or an assimilationist lesbian legal theory (advocating lesbianism as an irrelevant factor in legal determinations).