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Rich Kids, Poor Kids, And The Single-Sex Education Debate, Rosemary C. Salomone Jan 2000

Rich Kids, Poor Kids, And The Single-Sex Education Debate, Rosemary C. Salomone

Faculty Publications

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Over the past decade, the subject of publicly supported, single-sex education has generated considerable debate in legal and policy circles. Since 1996, much of that debate has centered around the Supreme Court's decision in the Virginia Military Institute case and how that case intersects with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. In VMI, Justice Ginsburg, speaking for the Court, stated that gender classifications must have "an exceedingly persuasive justification" in order to pass muster under the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause. That decision has become a key factor in recent efforts by school districts to establish …


Exercising The Right To Public Accommodations: The Debate Over Single-Sex Health Clubs, Miriam A. Cherry Jan 2000

Exercising The Right To Public Accommodations: The Debate Over Single-Sex Health Clubs, Miriam A. Cherry

Faculty Publications

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Recently, the debate over single-sex health clubs gained national attention when a patent attorney, James Foster, sued for admission to Healthworks, a Massachusetts all-women's health club. One day in 1996, Foster entered the club, which was located close to his Boston condominium, and asked for a tour and an application for membership. The club employees, however, refused him a tour, informing him that Healthworks did not admit men. Shortly thereafter, Foster filed a discrimination claim with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination contending that Healthworks had violated the Massachusetts public accommodations statute. He won at the administrative hearing, and Healthworks …


"Trapped" In Sing Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught In The Gender Binarism, Darren Rosenblum Jan 2000

"Trapped" In Sing Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught In The Gender Binarism, Darren Rosenblum

Faculty Publications

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A transgendered woman, who has undergone extensive hormonal therapy and cosmetic surgery, is convicted and imprisoned. Because she still has a penis, albeit a nonfunctioning one, prison officials categorize her as a male, and place her in a men's prison. "You were born a boy, and you're going to stay a boy," the prison doctor says, rejecting continuation of her long-term estrogen treatment. Her body begins to regain the masculinity she had largely escaped. Bruised by the changes, her body no longer feels like her own, but one imposed on her by the criminal justice system. Her femininity stands …


Chronicling A Movement: 20 Years Of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2000

Chronicling A Movement: 20 Years Of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

Articles & Chapters

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Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman Jan 2000

Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Promoting Family By Promoting Work: The Hole In Martha Fineman's Doughnut , Peter B. Edelman Jan 2000

Promoting Family By Promoting Work: The Hole In Martha Fineman's Doughnut , Peter B. Edelman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency , Martha T. Mccluskey Jan 2000

Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency , Martha T. Mccluskey

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Unequal Before The Law: Men, Women And The Death Penalty, Andrea Shapiro Jan 2000

Unequal Before The Law: Men, Women And The Death Penalty, Andrea Shapiro

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Women In Law A Review Of Rebels In Law, Voices In History Of Black Women Lawyers, The University Of Michigan Press. (J. Clay Smith Ed. 1998) 1998 & Virginia G. Drachman Sisters In Law, Women Layers In Modern American History, Harvard University Press. 1998, Susan D. Carle Jan 2000

Women In Law A Review Of Rebels In Law, Voices In History Of Black Women Lawyers, The University Of Michigan Press. (J. Clay Smith Ed. 1998) 1998 & Virginia G. Drachman Sisters In Law, Women Layers In Modern American History, Harvard University Press. 1998, Susan D. Carle

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Civilizing The Natives: Marriage In Post-Apartheid South Africa, David L. Chambers Jan 2000

Civilizing The Natives: Marriage In Post-Apartheid South Africa, David L. Chambers

Articles

South Africa is a land of many cultures. For several hundred years, British and Afrikaaner whites controlled the country, systematically manipulating black people to the whites' advantage. For the most part, however, whites tolerated the continuation within black communities of traditional marriage practices that white Christians considered uncivilized. In 1994, South Africa changed governments. A black majority Parliament came to power, adopting a consitution dedicated to equality and human dignity. Four years later, Parliament adopted a new marriage law that, though permitting some of the external trappings of the traditional marriage system to continue, eliminated by law much of the …


Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View Of Internet Identity Shifting, Margaret Chon Jan 2000

Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View Of Internet Identity Shifting, Margaret Chon

Faculty Articles

Race and gender become even more abstract in the disembodied presence they inhabit online. This article outlines the importance of being sensitive to the under-identified online presence of race and gender related issues, with an in depth discussion of the complications these issues face.


Introduction: A Retrospective On The Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2000

Introduction: A Retrospective On The Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.


Confronting The Limits Of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique, Dean Spade, Craig Willse Jan 2000

Confronting The Limits Of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique, Dean Spade, Craig Willse

Faculty Articles

Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of hate crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal "naming" for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the authors outline the political shortcomings and troubling consequences of hate crimes activism. First, they examine how hate crimes activism is situated within a "mainstream gay agenda," a term they use to designate the set of projects prioritized …


Ending Male Privilege: Beyond The Reasonable Woman, Stephanie M. Wildman Jan 2000

Ending Male Privilege: Beyond The Reasonable Woman, Stephanie M. Wildman

Michigan Law Review

A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man by Caroline A. Forell and Donna M. Matthews aspires to provide a solution for an enigmatic jurisprudential problem - the systemic failure of the legal order to recognize and to redress the injuries that women experience. Feminist scholars have agreed that, for women, the legal separation of public and private spheres often insulates from legal review behavior that harms women. But even in the so-called public sphere, women suffer harms that remain invisible and unnamed. The authors identify four legal arenas in which the "spectrum of violence …


Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams Jan 2000

Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman Jan 2000

Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett Jan 2000

Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore Jan 2000

Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency , Martha T. Mccluskey Jan 2000

Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency , Martha T. Mccluskey

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Promoting Family By Promoting Work: The Hole In Martha Fineman's Doughnut , Peter B. Edelman Jan 2000

Promoting Family By Promoting Work: The Hole In Martha Fineman's Doughnut , Peter B. Edelman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams Jan 2000

Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett Jan 2000

Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Building On Foundational Myths: Feminism And The Recovery Of "Human Nature": A Response To Martha Fineman , Peter M. Cicchino Jan 2000

Building On Foundational Myths: Feminism And The Recovery Of "Human Nature": A Response To Martha Fineman , Peter M. Cicchino

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore Jan 2000

Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Playing At Even Strength: Reforming Title Ix Enforcement In Intercollegiate Athletics, Ross A. Jurewitz Jan 2000

Playing At Even Strength: Reforming Title Ix Enforcement In Intercollegiate Athletics, Ross A. Jurewitz

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan Jan 2000

Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Consti–Tortion: Tort Law As An End-Run Around Abortion Rights After Planned Parenthood V. Casey, A.J. Stone Iii. Jan 2000

Consti–Tortion: Tort Law As An End-Run Around Abortion Rights After Planned Parenthood V. Casey, A.J. Stone Iii.

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Grabbing Them By The Balls: Legislatures, Courts, And Team Owners Bar Non-Elite Professional Athletes From Workers' Compensation, Rachael Schaffer Jan 2000

Grabbing Them By The Balls: Legislatures, Courts, And Team Owners Bar Non-Elite Professional Athletes From Workers' Compensation, Rachael Schaffer

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Models For Safe Child Support Enforcement, Susan Notar, Viki Turetesky Jan 2000

Models For Safe Child Support Enforcement, Susan Notar, Viki Turetesky

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


A House Of Fools: The Child Custody Protection Act, Christopher M. Law Jan 2000

A House Of Fools: The Child Custody Protection Act, Christopher M. Law

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.