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In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, Bethany Berger
In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, Bethany Berger
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On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court decided Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, holding that the Indian Child Welfare Act did not permit the Cherokee father in that case to object to termination of his parental rights. The case is ostensibly about a dispute between prospective adoptive parents and a biological father. This Article demonstrates that it is about a lot more than that. It is a microcosm of anxieties about Indianness, race, and the changing nature of parenthood. While made in the name of the child, moreover, the decision supports practices and policies that do not forward and may …
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
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This paper demonstrates that the American rules for impeaching witnesses developed against a cultural background that equated a woman's honor, and thus her credibility, with her sexual virtue. The idea that a woman's chastity informs her credibility did not originate in rape trials and the confusing interplay between questions of consent and sexual history. Rather, gendered notions of honor so permeated American legal culture that attorneys routinely attempted to impeach female witnesses by invoking their sexual histories in cases involving such diverse claims as title to land, assault, arson, and wrongful death. But while many courts initially accepted the notion …
A Woman's World, Michael Fischl
Cultivating Feminist Critical Inquiry, Anne Dailey
Cultivating Feminist Critical Inquiry, Anne Dailey
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Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod
Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod
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Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod
Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod
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No abstract provided.
Fantasy, Celebrity, And Homicide, Thomas Morawetz
Fantasy, Celebrity, And Homicide, Thomas Morawetz
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No abstract provided.
Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway
Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway
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No abstract provided.
Feminism's Return To Liberalism, Anne Dailey
Feminism's Return To Liberalism, Anne Dailey
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Divorce Stories: Readings, Comments And Questions On Law And Narrative, Carol Weisbrod
Divorce Stories: Readings, Comments And Questions On Law And Narrative, Carol Weisbrod
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Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
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Images Of The Woman Juror, Carol Weisbrod
Images Of The Woman Juror, Carol Weisbrod
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To Have And To Hold: The Marital Rape Exemption And The Fourteenth Amendment, Anne Dailey
To Have And To Hold: The Marital Rape Exemption And The Fourteenth Amendment, Anne Dailey
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No abstract provided.