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The Provision Of Maintenance For Women And Children In Zimbabwe, Fareda Banda

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article examines the challenges faced by women and children in Zimbabwe in accessing maintenance and property rights after divorce, despite comprehensive legal provisions. It highlights the dual legal system's impact, the judiciary's discretion in property distribution, and the economic and cultural barriers women face, emphasizing the need for legal reforms and improved enforcement mechanisms.

Consent To Marital Rape: Common Law Oxymoron?, Katherine O'Donovan

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article critically examines the historical and legal underpinnings of the marital rape exemption in common law, arguing that the concept of consent within marriage has been used to undermine women's autonomy and perpetuate gender inequality. It traces the evolution of this exemption from its roots in Sir Matthew Hale's 17th-century legal writings to its eventual abolition in England and Australia, highlighting the broader implications for women's citizenship and bodily integrity.

Determining The Role Of Psychological Bonding In New York Foster Care Law, Brian L. Greben

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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The Road To Equality: The Application Of The Reasonable Woman Standard In Sexual Harassment Cases, Deborah B. Goldberg

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note advocates for the adoption of the reasonable woman standard in evaluating hostile work environment sexual harassment claims under Title VII. It argues that this standard is essential to ensure that such claims are assessed from the victim's perspective, particularly considering the gendered differences in perception of harassing behavior. The author contends that the reasonable woman standard promotes equality by recognizing that men and women may perceive sexual harassment differently, and it should be preferred over the gender-neutral reasonable person standard, which often overlooks women's experiences.

Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

Law Faculty Publications

This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World contains over 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

An invaluable resource, the Encyclopedia offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The alphabetically arranged articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatment …

Combining Class Action Litigation And Social Science Research: A Case Study In Helping Homeless Women With Children, Lynee Soine, Mary Ann Burg

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Recognizing Acquaintance Rape In Potentially Consensual Situations: A Re-Examination Of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Kathleen F. Cairney

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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One Of The Guys, David L. Marin

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Silenced Justice, S.D. Schwinn

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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At The Intersection Of Injustice: Experiences Of African American Women In Crime And Sentencing, Paula C. Johnson

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Drug Addiction During Pregnancy: A Call For Increased Social Responsibility, Page Mcguire Linden

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Rape And The Requirement Of Force: Is There Hope For Pennsylvania After Pennsylvania V. Berkowitz?, Crystal S. Deese

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Professional Women And The Professionalization Of Motherhood: Marcia Clark's Double Bind, D. Kelly Weisberg

Faculty Scholarship

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Girls And The Getaway: Cars, Culture, And The Predicament Of Gendered Space, Carol Sanger

Faculty Scholarship

What does law tell us about our relations to material things? Property theorists maintain that there are no legal relations between persons and things. Things can be owned, transferred, bequeathed, assigned, repossessed, and so on, but such arrangements really describe relationships among different persons with regard to the object rather than relationships between persons and things.

Yet the quality or shape of the legal relations among persons often depends on the cultural meaning of the thing in question, a meaning (or meanings) that exists, in some form anyway, prior to or independent of, legal concepts traditionally attached to things such …

Forgotten Victims: Responsibility Under Law For Systematic Sexual Violence Toward Women During Warfare, Linda A. Malone

Popular Media

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Transcript: Panel Discussion On Religious &(And) Cultural Rights Conference On The Interventional Protection Of Reproductive Rights: Religious & Cultural Rights , American University Law Review

American University Law Review

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Abating The Feminization Of Poverty: Changing The Rules Governing Post - Decree Modification Of Child Support Obligations, J. Thomas Oldham

BYU Law Review

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Four Remarkable Ohio Women Lawyers--The Cronise Sisters Of Tiffin, Florence Allen, And Cleveland Law School's "Hard-Boiled Mary'", Arthur R. Landever

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Four Ohio Women blazed the trail. Among the early women lawyers in our state, they overcame resistance from the male bar or the culture of the day to distinguish themselves in the profession. Nettie Cronise was the first woman admitted to the Ohio bar. Her sister Florence followed, several months later. Florence Allen, admitted in 1914, became the nation's preeminent woman judge of her time. Mary Grossman, from Jewish immigrant roots, had a memorable career on the Cleveland Municipal Court. Why did these women choose law despite society's obstacles? What do they have to tell us?

Hearing Women Not Being Heard: On Carol Gilligan's Getting Civilized And The Complexity Of Voice, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Mail-Order Brides: Gilded Prostitution And The Legal Response, Eddy Meng

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note explores the international mail-order bride industry where women from Asia and other developing countries are trafficked to men in Western industrialized countries. The author discusses the commonalities between the mail-order bride traffic and other forms of sexual exploitation, as well as the cultural and historical forces and the gender, ethnic, and class subordination which together fuel the demand for Asian Pacific mail-order brides. In the United States, the potential for exploitation is made greater in that immigrant brides face a threat of deportation during the first two years of residence via immigration laws. Given the inequalities between consumer-husbands …

Feminist Lawmaking And Historical Consciousness: Bringing The Past Into The Future, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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"Mother," "Parent," And Bias, A. Jasmine Rassam

Indiana Law Journal

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Toward Gender Equality: The Promise Of Paradoxes Of Gender To Promote Structural Change, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Who Are The Parents Biotechnological Children?, Larry I. Palmer

Faculty Publications

We do not underestimate the difficulties of legislating on this subject. In addition to the inevitable confrontation with the ethical and moral issues involved, there is the question of the wisdom and effectiveness of regulating a matter so private, yet of such public interest. Legislative consideration of surrogacy may also provide the opportunity to begin to focus on the overall implications of the new reproductive biotechnology- in vitro fertilization, preservation of sperms and eggs, embryo implantation and the like. The problem is how to enjoy the benefits of the technology-especially for infertile couples-while minimizing the risk of abuse. The problem …

Legal Protection For Victims Of Domestic Violence: A Guide For The Treating Physician, Jane C. Murphy

All Faculty Scholarship

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Rethinking The Laws: Norplant As A Condition Of Probation For Female Child Abusers, R. Feikema Karachuk

In the Public Interest

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Public Exposure Of The Female Breast: Obscene And Immoral Or Free And Equal?, Helen Pundurs

In the Public Interest

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Prosecutors And Domestic Violence: Local Leadership Makes A Difference, Janet E. Findlater, Dawn Van Hoek

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Women, Law, And Inequality: Rethinking International Human Rights, Mary Elizabeth Bartholomew, Drucilla Cornell

Cardozo Law Review

In 1984, Robin Morgan posed this remarkable question in her historic book Sisterhood is Global. The Feminist Legal Resource Center remains but an unrealized goal of the international feminist legal community. Such a center could benefit women, especially women in the law, seeking to obtain access to information about trends and movements worldwide in the struggle to expand the rights of women. Beginning for the most part with the aftermath of World War II, when individuals became subjects of international law with the creation and proliferation of human rights law, lawyers and others concerned with the promotion of good government …

Employment Discrimination Law In Perspective: Three Concepts Of Equality, John J. Donohue Iii

Michigan Law Review

The essay begins with a discussion of which groups deserve the protection of employment discrimination law. With the protected categories of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act etched into the American consciousness, many might consider the appropriate categories to be fully self-evident. But of course, they are not, and many jurisdictions continue to struggle over whether certain dispreferred groups merit the law's solicitude.