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"Stand Your Ground" In Context: Race, Gender, And Politics, Donna Coker Jul 2014

"Stand Your Ground" In Context: Race, Gender, And Politics, Donna Coker

University of Miami Law Review

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Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women's Syndrome, And Violence As Male Privilege, Mary Anne Franks Jul 2014

Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women's Syndrome, And Violence As Male Privilege, Mary Anne Franks

University of Miami Law Review

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I Am/I Am Not: On Angela Harris's Race And Essentialism In Feminist Legal Theory, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2014

I Am/I Am Not: On Angela Harris's Race And Essentialism In Feminist Legal Theory, Mary Anne Franks

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In 1990, Angela Harris wrote an article that interrogated the limitations of feminist legal theory. Nearly a quarter of a century later, the insights and challenges Harris offered in Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory continue to reverberate. The influence of her ideas can be seen in the fractured and passionate conversations about gender, race, and solidarity occurring both inside and outside of academia. In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of debate of these topics in social media forums such as Twitter and Facebook. Far from being trivial, the intensity and persistence of these conversations suggest a …


Roll Back "Prison Nation", Donna Coker Jan 2014

Roll Back "Prison Nation", Donna Coker

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How To Feel Like A Woman, Or Why Punishment Is A Drag, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2014

How To Feel Like A Woman, Or Why Punishment Is A Drag, Mary Anne Franks

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If a man in prison says that he was made -to feel like a woman," this is commonly understood to mean that he was degraded, dehumanized, and sexualized. This association of femininity with punishment has significant implications for the way our society understands not only the sexual abuse of men in prison but also sexual abuse generally These important implications are usually overlooked, however, because law and society typically regard prison feminization as a problem of gender transposition: that is, as a problem of men being treated like women. In contrast, this Article argues that feminization is punitive for both …


Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Citron, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2014

Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Citron, Mary Anne Franks

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