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The Lenses Of Gender: Transforming The Debate On Sexual Inequality, Jill M. Dahlmann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality by Sandra Lipsitz Bem

Women & Athletics: A Twenty Year Retrospective On Title Ix, Diane Heckman

University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review

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Verbal Sexual Harassment As Equality-Depriving Conduct, Keith R. Fentonmiller

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note argues that commentators like Browne and some courts have mischaracterized the harm of verbal sexual harassment as mere "offense." Rather, the true harm of a sexually hostile environment created by words and expressive conduct extends beyond offense, emotional distress, and economic displacement; at bottom, the harm is equality-deprivation.

Part II explains how a sexually hostile environment is equality-depriving by arguing that words which create a sexually hostile environment must be understood in historical and social context. Words can be used not only to communicate ideas but also to perform acts of coercion and sexual abuse. …

With All Deliberate Speed? A Reply To Professor Sunstein, Marc A. Fajer

Indiana Law Journal

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Gender Equality: States As Laboratories, Dawn C. Nunziato

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Two decades ago, the calls of women’s groups for gender equality captured the attention of the legislatures, the courts, and the academy. “Liberal” feminist theorists called for the passage of the federal Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) and advocated the Supreme Court’s application of heightened scrutiny to gender classifications. Meanwhile, “radical” feminist theorists claimed that the liberal approach would achieve mere formal equality or equality of treatment between men and women but would not establish women’s actual equality in society. These radical theorists called for more extensive, affirmative government measures to achieve substantive equality for women.

The states’ failure to ratify …