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2018

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Using Intellectual Property Law To Promote Human Flourishing For “Market Women” | Section Of Intellectual Property Law.Pdf, J. Janewa Osei Tutu Mar 2018

Using Intellectual Property Law To Promote Human Flourishing For “Market Women” | Section Of Intellectual Property Law.Pdf, J. Janewa Osei Tutu

J. Janewa Osei-Tutu


IP laws can be used as a tool for promoting human flourishing and human development if entrepreneurial women in developing countries, such as Ghana, can better use IP rights to advance and promote their enterprises. For example, while driving from Accra to Cape Coast, I observed several small stalls on the side of the road with names on them. Clearly small enterprises, the stalls had no obvious branding aside from the handwritten names of the women who appeared to be the proprietors. These women wrote their names on their stalls —Abena, Akua, and Charity—in an attempt to distinguish their enterprises …


The Women Feminism Forgot: Rural And Working-Class White Women In The Era Of Trump, Lisa R. Pruitt Dec 2017

The Women Feminism Forgot: Rural And Working-Class White Women In The Era Of Trump, Lisa R. Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

The Women Feminism Forgot:  Rural and Working-Class White Women in the Era of Trump
 
© Lisa R. Pruitt 2018
 
Abstract
 
This article, based on a keynote address delivered at the University of Toledo Law Review Symposium on “Gender Equality:  Progress and Possibilities,” takes up the task of theorizing gendered aspects of the current chasm between progressive elites on one hand and rural and working-class whites on the other.  Pruitt offers observations that aim to cultivate empathy and ultimately temper elite derision toward these populations.  The article also lays the groundwork for a robust consideration of how feminist …