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Low-Life-Sleazy-Big-Haired-Trailer-Park Girl V. The President: The Paula Jones Case And The Law Of Sexual Harassment , Barbara Palmer, Judith Baer, Amy Jasperson, Jacqueline Delaat
Low-Life-Sleazy-Big-Haired-Trailer-Park Girl V. The President: The Paula Jones Case And The Law Of Sexual Harassment , Barbara Palmer, Judith Baer, Amy Jasperson, Jacqueline Delaat
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Sexists, Misogynists And The Male-Dominated Workplace: Whether Prevailing Workplace Norms Should Discredit A Hostile Work Environment In Williams V. General Motors Corp., Maresa Torregrossa
Sexists, Misogynists And The Male-Dominated Workplace: Whether Prevailing Workplace Norms Should Discredit A Hostile Work Environment In Williams V. General Motors Corp., Maresa Torregrossa
Villanova Law Review
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Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, And Desire, Katherine M. Franke
Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, And Desire, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
In this Essay, Professor Franke observes that, unlike feminists from other disciplines, feminist legal theorists have neglected to formulate a positive theory of female sexuality. Instead, discussions of female sexuality have been framed as either a matter of dependency or danger. Professor Franke begins her challenge to this scheme by asking why legal feminism has accepted unquestionably the fact that most women reproduce in their lifetimes. Why have not social forces that incentivize motherhood – a dynamic she terms repronormativity – been exposed to as exacting a feminist critique as have heteronormative forces that normalize heterosexuality? Furthermore, she continues by …
The Cult Of Hostile Gender Climate: A Male Voice Preaches Diversity To The Choir, Dan Subotnik
The Cult Of Hostile Gender Climate: A Male Voice Preaches Diversity To The Choir, Dan Subotnik
Scholarly Works
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School Liability For Peer Sexual Harassment After Davis: Shifting From Intent To Causation In Discrimination Law, Deborah L. Brake
School Liability For Peer Sexual Harassment After Davis: Shifting From Intent To Causation In Discrimination Law, Deborah L. Brake
Articles
This essay seeks to explain the Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education case as an interpretation of discrimination that notably and correctly focuses on how institutions cause sex-based harm, rather than on whether officials within chose institutions act with a discriminatory intent. In the process, I discuss what appears to be the implicit theory of discrimination underlying the Davis decision: that schools cause the discrimination by exacerbating the harm that results from sexual harassment by students. I then explore the significance of the deliberate indifference requirement in this context, concluding that the standard, for all its flaws, is distinct …