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Building Bridges Between Theory And Practice, Activism And Scholarship, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Women Judges And Better Justice For All, John D. Feerick

Faculty Scholarship

According to the most recent report of The New York Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts, published in October 1992, out of a total of 1,129 judges, only 183 are female. It is clear women are under-represented in the judiciary. Decisive action is required in order to increase opportunities for women to become judges. In January 1992, Governor Cuomo's Task Force on Judicial Diversity ("the Task Force") issued its report. The Task Force strongly supported diversity and set forth compelling reasons why a diverse bench is in the public interest. The report reminded us that "diversity is vital because …

Cunning Stunts: From Hegemony To Desire A Review Of Madonna's Sex, Katherine M. Franke

Faculty Scholarship

What is sex? Is it an accidental or contingent property that every person can be said to have? I am brunette and female, but the Pope is bald and male. Or, is sex more constitutive, that is, an essential part of who we are? In this respect, the claim is often made that women experience the world ditfierently than men. Or, is sex something we do?

If we consider sex as an adjective, can we or should we be able to manipulate it like a new hair style? Or does the notion of sexual malleability trivialize the significance …

The Political Economy Of Female Violent Street Crime, Deborah Baskin, Ira Sommers, Jeffrey A. Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

Ten years after the U.S. Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime considered problems of violence in the United States, and on the heels of a National Academy Sciences report on violence, the nation seems poised to begin a new "war on violence." Past "wars" on crime problems, including the recently stalemated "war on drugs" have focused primarily on males. This one promises to be no different. Violence continues to be viewed as the province of young males in urban areas. According to the Uniform Crime Reports, over 75% of homicide victims in 1990 were males, and over 85% of …

Whiteness And Women, In Practice And Theory: A Reply To Catharine Mackinnon, Martha R. Mahoney

Articles

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Rape, Violence, And Women's Autonomy, Dorothy E. Roberts

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law

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Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts

Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law

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"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz

Angela P Harris

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"A(Nother) Critique Of Pure Reason": Toward Civic Virtue In Legal Education, Angela P. Harris, Marjorie Shultz

Marjorie M. Shultz

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