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Caster Semenya And The Policing Of Competitive Athletic Advantage, Taylor Vann
Caster Semenya And The Policing Of Competitive Athletic Advantage, Taylor Vann
Connecticut Law Review
In recent years, transgender and intersex athletes competing in track and field have come under intense scrutiny. The most notable of these athletes at the elite level is Caster Semenya of South Africa. Semenya has been accused of benefiting from an unfair competitive advantage due to her natural biological makeup. In response, international track and field’s governing body has promulgated multiple regulations to address athletes like Semenya. This article examines these regulations and their impact on transgender and intersex athletes at multiple levels of competition, It argues that these regulations and similar attempts under Title IX in the United States …
Paternalism Or Gender-Neutrality?, Stephen J. Ware
Paternalism Or Gender-Neutrality?, Stephen J. Ware
Connecticut Law Review
The strong and widely accepted reasons for using gender-neutral language presumptively apply to the gendered word paternalism and its gender-neutral counterpart, parentalism. With these reasons in mind, this Article’s thesis is that legal scholars should begin with a presumption for using the gender-neutral word parentalism, while using paternalism only when emphasizing the important relevance of gender or otherwise trying to convey a gendered meaning. Accordingly, many legal scholars define paternalism in an expressly gendered way—such as “the institutionalization of male dominance,” or an “ideology [that] teaches men to minimize women’s agency”—or fittingly use paternalism to describe an attitude especially characteristic …
Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia
Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia
Honors Scholar Theses
In December 2012, a twenty-three year old college student, who was given the pseudonym “Nirbhaya” (“fearless”), was fatally gang-raped on a private bus in Delhi, India, galvanizing the country to swiftly adopt new legislative measures and catapulting the issue of violence against women in India into the international spotlight. Although assault and rape cases have made India infamous for its high volume of crimes against women, the reaction to this particular incident was much different from before. This paper investigates whether the governmental and societal responses represent social change, as indicated by changing attitudes towards violence against women in India. …
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
Faculty Articles and Papers
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 …
Coalition, Cross-Cultural Lawyering, And Intersectionality: Immigrant Identity As A Barrier To Effective Legal Counseling For Domestic Violence Victims, Jessica H. Stein
Coalition, Cross-Cultural Lawyering, And Intersectionality: Immigrant Identity As A Barrier To Effective Legal Counseling For Domestic Violence Victims, Jessica H. Stein
Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
Vol. 11, No. 1
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
Faculty Articles and Papers
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
Faculty Articles and Papers
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Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod
Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
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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
Faculty Articles and Papers
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Fantasy, Celebrity, And Homicide, Thomas Morawetz
Fantasy, Celebrity, And Homicide, Thomas Morawetz
Faculty Articles and Papers
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Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway
Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway
Faculty Articles and Papers
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Feminism's Return To Liberalism, Anne Dailey
Feminism's Return To Liberalism, Anne Dailey
Faculty Articles and Papers
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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
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Images Of The Woman Juror, Carol Weisbrod
Images Of The Woman Juror, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
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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
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.