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Full-Text Articles in Law
Reinforcing The Myth Of The Crazed Rapist: A Feminist Critique Of Recent Rape Legislation, Christina E. Wells, Erin Elliott
Reinforcing The Myth Of The Crazed Rapist: A Feminist Critique Of Recent Rape Legislation, Christina E. Wells, Erin Elliott
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Part I of this article reviews these new legislative provisions, discussing their requirements as well as the general impetus behind their enactment. Part II discusses both the history of rape prosecution and feminist efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to eliminate barriers to successful rape prosecutions. This part also elaborates upon the myth of the crazed rapist and its relationship to feminist reform efforts. Part III explains how the current legislation is rooted in and reinforces that myth by encouraging unsupportable distinctions among rape defendants. Finally, Part IV discusses the feminist response to such laws and argues for a more …
Exploring Feminism Globally To Achieve Global Feminism, Anna M. Han
Exploring Feminism Globally To Achieve Global Feminism, Anna M. Han
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Edited Speech delivered on October 6, 2000 at the University of San Diego Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues Conference on Intersectionality and Critical Race Feminism.
In writing this article, I kept thinking of the various stories that I heard during the workshops in Beijing and again I was struck by the commonality of the underlying issues facing women from around the world. While there may be dramatic political, cultural, linguistic and economic differences, I posit that there were more similarities than there were differences.
Holding-Up More Than Half The Sky: Marketization And The Status Of Women In China, Anna M. Han
Holding-Up More Than Half The Sky: Marketization And The Status Of Women In China, Anna M. Han
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The purpose of this article is to examine generally how Chinese women fared under communism and more specifically, delve into how marketization has adversely impacted the status of women in China. It is this author's contention that despite the overall improvements in the standard of living, Chinese women are increasingly being marginalized economically. The long-term effects of subjugating the advancement of women for the immediate benefits of China's experimentation with a market economy hold vast implications for the future of the country. As China progresses economically, politically and socially, it cannot afford to leave half of its population behind as …
Confronting The Agency In Battered Mothers, Elaine M. Chiu
Confronting The Agency In Battered Mothers, Elaine M. Chiu
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Despite the progress of the last three decades, the American public and even feminists remain caught in a web of ambivalence and contradictory attitudes and beliefs about battered women. Are battered women traumatized victims who suffer at the hands of their individual abusers and from the systemic failures of a male-dominated culture? Are they, therefore, unable to save themselves or their children? In contrast, are these women survivors who manage to protect themselves as best they can under uniquely difficult circumstances? Do they deserve recognition for their efforts, or do battered women somehow contribute to or exacerbate their own abuse …
Exercising The Right To Public Accommodations: The Debate Over Single-Sex Health Clubs, Miriam A. Cherry, Miriam A. Cherry
Exercising The Right To Public Accommodations: The Debate Over Single-Sex Health Clubs, Miriam A. Cherry, Miriam A. Cherry
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Recently, the debate over single-sex health clubs gained national attention when a patent attorney, James Foster, sued for admission to Healthworks, a Massachusetts all-women's health club. One day in 1996, Foster entered the club, which was located close to his Boston condominium, and asked for a tour and an application for membership. The club employees, however, refused him a tour, informing him that Healthworks did not admit men. Shortly thereafter, Foster filed a discrimination claim with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination contending that Healthworks had violated the Massachusetts public accommodations statute. He won at the administrative hearing, and Healthworks …
Statutory Rape Law And Enforcement In The Wake Of Welfare Reform, Rigel C. Oliveri
Statutory Rape Law And Enforcement In The Wake Of Welfare Reform, Rigel C. Oliveri
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The recent national efforts at reforming the welfare system and new research on the connection between teen pregnancy and statutory rape have led many states to enact stricter laws against statutory rape and to increase the enforcement of existing laws. Punitive statutory rape laws are being viewed more and more as a mechanism for shrinking the welfare rolls by reducing teen pregnancy. Rigel Oliveri documents the resurgence of statutory rape law and enforcement and explores the ramifications it will have on teen parents. In particular, Oliveri approaches the issue from several analytical frameworks, discussing arguments for consent-based standards, the privacy …
Shaping Regional Economies To Sustain Quality Work: The Cooperative Health Care Network, Peter R. Pitegoff
Shaping Regional Economies To Sustain Quality Work: The Cooperative Health Care Network, Peter R. Pitegoff
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This chapter chronicles a creative response to social retrenchment, a saga of strategic deployment of accessible resources and a reshaping of regional economic forces for the benefit of targeted labor markets. While charting its own course, CHCB is part of a mutually supportive network of health care employers and trainers, including successful home care companies in Philadelphia and the South Bronx. Together, these three corporations form the core of the Cooperative Health Care Network and employ over 500 home health aides. About 80 percent of the employees were formerly dependent on public assistance. The network [network] experience and their applicability …
Adoption Of Children In Missouri, Mary M. Beck
Adoption Of Children In Missouri, Mary M. Beck
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The purpose of this Article is to investigate the effect of Missouri law on adoption and to determine whether its provisions adequately protect the parties to adoption and whether its degree of clarity properly forestalls litigation.
Hypocrites And Barking Harlots: The Clinton-Lewinsky Affair And The Attack On Women, Christina E. Wells
Hypocrites And Barking Harlots: The Clinton-Lewinsky Affair And The Attack On Women, Christina E. Wells
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This essay defends against the wholesale castigation of women who support the President. It reveals that such criticism is wrong and unfair. Specifically, it demonstrates that the critics have unreasonably characterized women's responses to Clinton as hypocritical or extremely naive, rather than as examples of astute political decision-making. The essay further exposes the sexism underlying the critics' arguments, revealing that stereotypes regarding (1) women's role as the keeper of morals and (2) women as non-political or non-rational beings are at the heart of much of the criticism. By reinforcing these stereotypes, the critics pose a greater danger to women than …
Not-So-Arbitrary Arbitration: Using Title Vii Disparate Impact Analysis To Invalidate Employment Contracts That Discriminate, Miriam A. Cherry
Not-So-Arbitrary Arbitration: Using Title Vii Disparate Impact Analysis To Invalidate Employment Contracts That Discriminate, Miriam A. Cherry
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On May 20, 1996, three women filed a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against the Wall Street investment firm Smith Barney. Later joined by twenty additional women, the plaintiffs alleged that Smith Barney failed to hire and promote women, created a hostile work environment, and discriminated on the basis of pregnancy and marital status. The lawsuit quickly gained widespread publicity, most notably for its accusation that the former manager of the Garden City, New York, branch had established a fraternity-like "boom-boom room" in the office basement where female employees were either excluded or harassed if allowed to enter. On …
Re-Defining Reproductive Freedom, Timothy Zick
Re-Defining Reproductive Freedom, Timothy Zick
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Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri
Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri
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This paper focuses on the political and moral debate surrounding two pieces of federal legislation which sought to criminalize a particular late term abortion technique scientifically known as "intact dilation and extraction," and popularly known as "partial birth abortion." The Congressional "Partial Birth Abortion" Bans of 1996 and 1997 inflamed the already emotionally charged contest over abortion rights. The intense lobbying and advocacy efforts put pro-choice activists in the uncomfortable position of having to defend one of the most extreme positions on the abortion-rights spectrum. The advocacy was further complicated by the fact that very few women obtain late term …
Child Care Policy And The Welfare Reform Act, Peter R. Pitegoff
Child Care Policy And The Welfare Reform Act, Peter R. Pitegoff
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This article sketches the 1996 Welfare Reform Act's major changes with particular attention to federally subsidized child care for low-income families.
Immigration - Refugee Act Of 1980 - Resistance To Female Circumcision As Grounds For Political Asylum In The United States, Linda A. Malone
Immigration - Refugee Act Of 1980 - Resistance To Female Circumcision As Grounds For Political Asylum In The United States, Linda A. Malone
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No abstract provided.
Private Commissions, Assisted Reproduction, And Lawyering, Larry I. Palmer
Private Commissions, Assisted Reproduction, And Lawyering, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Beyond Bosnia And In Re Kasinga: A Feminist Perspective On Recent Developments In Protecting Women From Sexual Violence, Linda A. Malone
Beyond Bosnia And In Re Kasinga: A Feminist Perspective On Recent Developments In Protecting Women From Sexual Violence, Linda A. Malone
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No abstract provided.
The First Stone In Retrospect: An Outsider's Observations On The Book And Its Critics, Susan Grover
The First Stone In Retrospect: An Outsider's Observations On The Book And Its Critics, Susan Grover
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No abstract provided.
The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins
The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
The Radical Feminist Defense Of Individualism, Cynthia V. Ward
The Radical Feminist Defense Of Individualism, Cynthia V. Ward
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No abstract provided.
Who Are The Parents Biotechnological Children?, Larry I. Palmer
Who Are The Parents Biotechnological Children?, Larry I. Palmer
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We do not underestimate the difficulties of legislating on this subject. In addition to the inevitable confrontation with the ethical and moral issues involved, there is the question of the wisdom and effectiveness of regulating a matter so private, yet of such public interest. Legislative consideration of surrogacy may also provide the opportunity to begin to focus on the overall implications of the new reproductive biotechnology- in vitro fertilization, preservation of sperms and eggs, embryo implantation and the like. The problem is how to enjoy the benefits of the technology-especially for infertile couples-while minimizing the risk of abuse. The problem …
Ain't?, Susan Grover
The Legal Significance Of Gestation, Larry I. Palmer
The Legal Significance Of Gestation, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Zoe Baird, Betrayal And Fragmentation, Susan Grover
Zoe Baird, Betrayal And Fragmentation, Susan Grover
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No abstract provided.
The Employer's Fetal Injury Quandary After Johnson Controls, Susan Grover
The Employer's Fetal Injury Quandary After Johnson Controls, Susan Grover
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No abstract provided.
Child Care Enterprise, Community Development, And Work, Peter R. Pitegoff
Child Care Enterprise, Community Development, And Work, Peter R. Pitegoff
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Child care enterprise can be a vehicle for community-based economic development. Beyond the critical goal of child care service, day care as an enterprise can help build capacity for job creation and entrepreneurship in the inner city and in disadvantaged communities. Stable child care institutions with quality jobs can sound a counterpoint to the feminization of poverty. The demand for child care services is substantial and growing. In single parent families and in households with two working parents, day care is essential to enable parents to work or go to school. Further, high quality early childhood programs can have a …
Killing Daddy: Developing A Self-Defense Strategy For The Abused Child, Joelle A. Moreno
Killing Daddy: Developing A Self-Defense Strategy For The Abused Child, Joelle A. Moreno
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No abstract provided.
Gender Justice And Its Critics, Neal Devins
Gender Justice And Its Critics, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
Associations' Freedom V. Freedom Of Association: Another Look At All-Male Clubs, Neal Devins
Associations' Freedom V. Freedom Of Association: Another Look At All-Male Clubs, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
Illegal Traffic In Women: A Civil Rico Proposal, Lan Cao
Illegal Traffic In Women: A Civil Rico Proposal, Lan Cao
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No abstract provided.
Sex Discrimination In Coaching, R. Lawrence Dessem
Sex Discrimination In Coaching, R. Lawrence Dessem
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This article will attempt to provide a legal framework for analysis of this not uncommon payment of lower salaries or stipends to the teacher-coaches (both male and female) of girls' athletics than to the teacher-coaches of comparable or identical boys' sports.