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Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow
Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow
This Essay considers ways in which female attorneys confront sexism and stereotyping in the legal profession and in life, and strongly endorses embracing feminism, and wearing comfortable shoes.
The Political Economy Of Violence: Toward An Understanding Of The Gender-Based Murders Of Ciudad Juarez, Deborah M. Weissman
The Political Economy Of Violence: Toward An Understanding Of The Gender-Based Murders Of Ciudad Juarez, Deborah M. Weissman
Deborah M. Weissman
This article provides an interpretive account of the political economy of violence localized in Cd. Juarez, Mexico. It examines the socioeconomic conditions attending decades during a period of rapid transformation to an export economy as the environment in which violence against women has assumed endemic proportions. The serial murders of women have been alternately problematized as deeds of criminal deviants, as a reactionary gendered responses to women replacing men in the wage labor force, and as the failure of the state to exercise local authority. This article argues for a more comprehensive analysis that includes the above theories without bracketing …
The Meaning Of Equality: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, And Provocation In Canada, Australia, And The United States, Caroline A. Forell
The Meaning Of Equality: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, And Provocation In Canada, Australia, And The United States, Caroline A. Forell
Caroline A Forell
Sexual harassment, stalking, and the criminal defense of provocation are three areas of law where the majority of injured parties are women and the majority of perpetrators are men. I examine how, in Canada, Australia, and the United States, two visions of gender equality, formal and substantive, have influenced the development of these areas.