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Pregnant Pause: The Interplay Of Gendered Expectations And Pregnancy In Legal Education, Ilya Iussa

Ilya Iussa

PREGNANT PAUSE: THE INTERPLAY OF GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND PREGNANCY IN LEGAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Is the law student biased against pregnant women? No systematic empirical study exists that can confirm whether law or university students in fact evidence bias towards visibly pregnant professors. This article, thus, reviews scholarship in the social sciences that identifies the occurrence, pervasiveness, cause and effects of student bias towards professors that do not exemplify the “normal professor body.”

This article reflects upon my interactions with law students as their professor during the course of my recent pregnancy and posits that certain perceptions held by my students …

Mothers, Bombers, Beauty Queens: Chechen Women's Roles In The Russo-Chechen Conflict, Francine Banner

Francine Banner

History is written on the body. Factors such as historical, social, and cultural exigencies produce bodies of a determinate type. In the Chechen Republic, women's bodies have been front and center in struggles to raise birthrates in order to secure ethnic advancement and promote a sense of peace and national unity in periods after time of strife. They have been the focus of discussions over modesty, adherence to tradition, and religious observance, as women took the stage as contestants in beauty pageants. And they have been at the forefront in debates over Chechen terrorism, with the "black widows" of Chechnya …

Rewriting History: The Use Of Feminist Narratives To Deconstruct The Myth Of The Capital Defendant, Francine Banner

Francine Banner

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