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Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine Vaughns
Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine Vaughns
Katherine L. Vaughns
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Lessons About Reform From “A Very Dangerous Woman”, Sherry Penney, James Livingston
Lessons About Reform From “A Very Dangerous Woman”, Sherry Penney, James Livingston
Sherry Penney
We discuss reform in antebellum America through the life of Martha Coffin Wright, an activist in the abolition and early women’s rights movements. Consideration of her motivations for reform; the obstacles faced by these movements; their methods, successes, and failures, may offer guidelines for reformers of today.
Navigating Gender In Modern Intimate Partnership Law, Alicia Kelly
Navigating Gender In Modern Intimate Partnership Law, Alicia Kelly
Alicia B. Kelly
With women edging up to become half the workforce, claims of women’s economic empowerment now abound. But the reality is that gender equality has not been mainstreamed. The truly eye-opening new data is how marginalized and partial many women’s attachment to the labor force continues to be. Simultaneously, another misleading narrative also circulates—that of separateness—of disconnected individualism. In the context of intimate partnership and feminist legal theory, this Article pushes back against these accounts and demonstrates their problematic link. Contrary to the storylines, many women’s lives in fact remain characterized by deep bonds with partners, children, and extended family, and …
Exchange As A Cornerstone Of Families, Martha Ertman
Exchange As A Cornerstone Of Families, Martha Ertman
Martha M. Ertman
This essay up-ends critical theorist Ivan Illich’s critique of economic thinking as replacing households defined by vernacular gender with married pairs in “inhumane” sex-neutral economic partnerships. It challenges Illich’s view of exchange as a destroyer that has meddled in families for only a few hundred years, citing sociobiological literature to counter his case against exchange with one valorizing two exchanges that I call “primal deals” that played crucial roles in the evolution of humans, families, and day-to-day life. These primal deals—especially the primal pair-bonding deal between men and women—continue to play a central role in families and family law today. …
From The Bench To The Screen: The Woman Judge In Film, Laura Ray
From The Bench To The Screen: The Woman Judge In Film, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
Although there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women judges over the past half century, their cinematic counterparts have failed to reflect that change. This Article explores the paradoxical relationship between social reality and its representation on screen to identify a lingering resistance to the idea of women exercising judicial power. The Article first examines the sparse history of women judges as central characters in films of the 1930s, finding the tension in those films between judicial authority and domestic happiness. It then turns to Hollywood’s romantic comedies of the 1940s, which resolved that tension through the …