Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Courts (1)
- Education Law (1)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1)
- Gender and Sexuality (1)
-
- History (1)
- History of Gender (1)
- Human Rights Law (1)
- Law and Race (1)
- Legal History (1)
- Legislation (1)
- Public Law and Legal Theory (1)
- Race and Ethnicity (1)
- Sexuality and the Law (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Sociology (1)
- United States History (1)
- Women's History (1)
- Women's Studies (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
The Strange Career Of Jane Crow: Sex Segregation And The Transformation Of Anti-Discrimination Discourse, Serena Mayeri
The Strange Career Of Jane Crow: Sex Segregation And The Transformation Of Anti-Discrimination Discourse, Serena Mayeri
All Faculty Scholarship
This article examines the causes and consequences of a transformation in anti-discrimination discourse between 1970 and 1977 that shapes our constitutional landscape to this day. Fears of cross-racial intimacy leading to interracial marriage galvanized many white Southerners to oppose school desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, some commentators, politicians, and ordinary citizens proposed a solution: segregate the newly integrated schools by sex. When court-ordered desegregation became a reality in the late 1960s, a smattering of southern school districts implemented sex separation plans. As late as 1969, no one saw sex-segregated schools …
The Equality Paradise: Paradoxes Of The Law's Power To Advance Equality, Marcia L. Mccormick
The Equality Paradise: Paradoxes Of The Law's Power To Advance Equality, Marcia L. Mccormick
All Faculty Scholarship
This paper, written for Texas Wesleyan Law School's Gloucester Conference, ¿Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality,¿ is a brief exploration of a broader project. Every civil rights movement must struggle with how to allocate scarce resources to accomplish the broadest change possible. This paper compares the legal and political strategies of the Black rights movement and the women's rights movement in the United States, comparing both the strategy choices and the results. These two movement followed essentially the same strategies. Where they have attained success and where each has failed demonstrates the limits …