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Women And The Law: How Far We’Ve Come And Where We Need To Go, Michelle S. Simon Jan 2009

Women And The Law: How Far We’Ve Come And Where We Need To Go, Michelle S. Simon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Introduction to the program on “Women and the Law: How Far We've Come and Where We Need to Go” held at Pace Law School, October 24, 2008.

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In The Name Of Fetal Protection: Why American Prosecutors Pursue Pregnant Drug Users (And Other Countries Don't), Linda C. Fentiman Jan 2009

In The Name Of Fetal Protection: Why American Prosecutors Pursue Pregnant Drug Users (And Other Countries Don't), Linda C. Fentiman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

For more than three decades, American prosecutors have been bringing criminal prosecutions against pregnant women based on their use of drugs while pregnant, with charges ranging from child abuse or neglect to murder. Almost all of these women are poor, and the vast majority are also women of color--many with histories of childhood sexual or physical abuse and mental disability. In all but three states-Alabama, Kentucky, and South Carolina--such prosecutions have been declared unconstitutional or the resulting convictions have been overturned. Nonetheless, prosecutions continue to be brought, in what can only be described as a crusade against pregnant women in …

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Reconstructive Feminism: Changing The Way We Talk About Gender And Work Thirty Years After The Pda, Joan C. Williams Jan 2009

Reconstructive Feminism: Changing The Way We Talk About Gender And Work Thirty Years After The Pda, Joan C. Williams

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