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Emergency Contraceptives Or "Abortion-Inducing" Drugs? Empowering Women To Make Informed Decisions, Ryan M. Hrobak, Robin Fretwell Wilson 2014 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Emergency Contraceptives Or "Abortion-Inducing" Drugs? Empowering Women To Make Informed Decisions, Ryan M. Hrobak, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Woman Soldier's Right To Combat: Equal Protection In The Military, Tim Bakken 2014 William & Mary Law School

A Woman Soldier's Right To Combat: Equal Protection In The Military, Tim Bakken

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

No abstract provided.


Financial Freedom: Women, Money, And Domestic Abuse, Dana Harrington Conner 2014 William & Mary Law School

Financial Freedom: Women, Money, And Domestic Abuse, Dana Harrington Conner

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

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit 2014 William & Mary Law School

In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perceptive, Yehezkel Margalit

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

The American public’s attention was first exposed to the practice of surrogacy in 1988 with the drama and verdict of the Baby M case. Over the last twenty-five years, the practice of surrogacy has slowly become increasingly socially accepted, and even welcomed. This evolution serves to emphasize the bizarre judicial and legislative silence regarding surrogacy that exists today in the vast majority of U.S. jurisdictions. In this Article, I describe and trace the dramatic revolution that took place during the recent decades, as the surrogacy practice has drastically changed from one viewed as problematic and rejected to a socially widespread …


Protecting The Living Victims: Evaluating The Impact Of India's Farmer Suicide Crisis On Its Rural Women, Gowri Janakiramanan 2014 William & Mary Law School

Protecting The Living Victims: Evaluating The Impact Of India's Farmer Suicide Crisis On Its Rural Women, Gowri Janakiramanan

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

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Challenging Hospital Vbac Bans Through Tort Liability, L. Indra Lusero 2014 William & Mary Law School

Challenging Hospital Vbac Bans Through Tort Liability, L. Indra Lusero

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

No abstract provided.


Expanding Women’S Healthcare Access In The United States: The Patchwork “Universalism” Of The Affordable Care Act, Randy Albelda, Diana Salas Coronado 2014 University of Massachusetts Boston

Expanding Women’S Healthcare Access In The United States: The Patchwork “Universalism” Of The Affordable Care Act, Randy Albelda, Diana Salas Coronado

Center for Social Policy Publications

This paper explores the promise of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called “Obamacare” (referred to here as the ACA), with attention to the ways gender matter by tracing the development and implementation of key US social protection systems, an examination of the current health system with particular attention to women’s coverage, and the potential impacts of the ACA, including how it conforms to international human rights norms for health care. The ACA promises to vastly improve the key dimensions of health coverage in the US, but it conforms with other US social policy by relying on market-based …


Training Curriculum: Responding To Sexual Abuse Of Youth In Custody: Addressing The Needs Of Boys, Girls, And Gender Nonconforming Youth - Notification Of Curriculum Use (Facilitator’S Guide), Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi, Rebecca Heinsen, Melissa C. Loomis, Caleb J. Bess, Tonya Davis, Lisa Capers, Kevin DuBose, Takiya Wheeler, Dr. Robert Bidwell 2014 American University Washington College of Law

Training Curriculum: Responding To Sexual Abuse Of Youth In Custody: Addressing The Needs Of Boys, Girls, And Gender Nonconforming Youth - Notification Of Curriculum Use (Facilitator’S Guide), Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi, Rebecca Heinsen, Melissa C. Loomis, Caleb J. Bess, Tonya Davis, Lisa Capers, Kevin Dubose, Takiya Wheeler, Dr. Robert Bidwell

Research Reports & White Papers

The enclosed Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the Needs of Boys, Girls, and Gender Nonconforming Youth curriculum was developed by the Project on Addressing Prison Rape at American University, Washington College of Law as part of contract deliverables for the National PREA Resource Center (PRC), a cooperative agreement between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards served as the basis for the curriculum’s content and development with the goal of the Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the …


Contempt, Status, And The Criminalization Of Non-Conforming Girls, Cynthia Godsoe 2014 Brooklyn Law School

Contempt, Status, And The Criminalization Of Non-Conforming Girls, Cynthia Godsoe

Cardozo Law Review

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For A Feminist Considering Surrogacy, Is Compensation Really The Key Question?, Julie Shapiro 2014 Seattle University School of Law

For A Feminist Considering Surrogacy, Is Compensation Really The Key Question?, Julie Shapiro

Faculty Articles

Feminists have long been engaged in the debates over surrogacy. During the past thirty years, thousands of women throughout the world have served as surrogate mothers. The experience of these women has been studied by academics in law and in the social sciences. It is apparent that if properly conducted, surrogacy can be a rewarding experience for women and hence should not be objectionable to feminists. Improperly conducted, however, surrogacy can be a form of exploitation. Compensation is not the distinguishing factor. In this essay I offer two changes to law that would improve the surrogate's experience of surrogacy. First, …


A Symposium On Social Justice Feminism: Introduction, Emily Houh, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams 2014 University of Cincinnati College of Law

A Symposium On Social Justice Feminism: Introduction, Emily Houh, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This special issue of the Freedom Center Journal, includes a set of truly diverse and interdisciplinary pieces, each individually interpreting and performing social justice feminism in original and unique ways. Collectively, these pieces demonstrate how SJF can be constructively employed across academic disciplines and through lived realities and, further, how SJF can be used to connect theory to our own individual and collective advocacy and activism.


Legal History And The Politics Of Inclusion, Felice J. Batlan 2014 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Legal History And The Politics Of Inclusion, Felice J. Batlan

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Status Gap: Female Faculty In The Legal Academy, Paula A. Monopoli 2014 University of Maryland School of Law

The Status Gap: Female Faculty In The Legal Academy, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

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When Speech Isn't Free: Legal Barriers And Consequences Of Reporting Sexual Violence, Kevin M. Fleming 2014 Hamline University

When Speech Isn't Free: Legal Barriers And Consequences Of Reporting Sexual Violence, Kevin M. Fleming

Departmental Honors Projects

Incidents of sexual violence continue to be a serious problem for society. Likewise, acts of sexual violence impose severe consequences for survivors. The consequences initially begin at the onset of the survivor’s journey to psychological recovery following the traumatic sexual assault. The consequences take on a unique set of characteristics when the survivor attempts to use the justice system to confront the perpetrator who committed the offense. These characteristics can transform an adversarial process into an isolated battle for the survivor. In the worst cases, the justice system empowers individuals who wish to silence survivors with free speech restrictions instead …


Safety V. Surgery: Sex Reassignment Surgery And The Housing Of Transgender Inmates, Tammi S. Etheridge 2014 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Safety V. Surgery: Sex Reassignment Surgery And The Housing Of Transgender Inmates, Tammi S. Etheridge

Scholarly Articles

Rather than continue to ignore the discrepancy between allowing transgender prisoners access to hormone therapy and sexual reassignment surgery while permitting prison administrators to decide whether there is adequate housing to warrant such treatment, courts should enforce the use of such medically necessary treatments when prescribed by a doctor. Although prisons may be justified in their concerns of safety, it is time to amend the structure of the prison industrial complex so that all prisoners are safe and free from abuse. Moving forward, prisons might consider classifying and housing each prisoner on a case-by case basis or constructing non-punitive housing …


Contraceptive Sabotage, Leah A. Plunkett 2014 University of New Hampshire School of Law

Contraceptive Sabotage, Leah A. Plunkett

Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article responds to the alarm recently sounded by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists over “birth control sabotage”—the “active interference [by one partner] with [the other] partner’s contraceptive methods in an attempt to promote pregnancy.” Currently, sabotage is not a crime, and existing categories of criminal offenses fail to capture the essence of the injury it does to victims. This Article argues that sabotage should be a separate crime—but only when perpetrated against those partners who can and do get pregnant as a result of having sabotaged sex. Using the principle of self-possession—understood as a person’s basic right …


Irresistible As A Matter Of Law: Why Title Vii Jurisprudence Administered The Coup De Grace To The Purposivist Method Of Statutory Interpretation, Robert A. Pellow 2014 Barry University School of Law

Irresistible As A Matter Of Law: Why Title Vii Jurisprudence Administered The Coup De Grace To The Purposivist Method Of Statutory Interpretation, Robert A. Pellow

Barry Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mandatory Ultrasound Statutes And The First Amendment, Shifting The Constitutional Perspective, Cheri D. Smith 2014 University of Maryland - Baltimore

Mandatory Ultrasound Statutes And The First Amendment, Shifting The Constitutional Perspective, Cheri D. Smith

Women, Leadership & Equality

The jurisprudence of abortion law is replete with instances in which the concerns of the woman seeking the procedure have taken a back seat. The newest battleground in abortion regulation involves mandatory ultrasound statutes touted as informed consent regulations. The analysis of courts confronting these statutes has turned on whether the mandatory disclosures violate the physician’s First Amendment right to be free from compelled speech. The particular breed of statute at issue in this paper requires a physician not only to perform an ultrasound, but also to make the images visible to the woman, to make audible the heartbeat, and …


Narrowing The Gender Pay Gap By Providing Equal Opportunities: The Need For Tenured Female Professors In Higher Stem Institutions In An Effort To Recast Gender Norms, Claire R. Rollor 2014 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Narrowing The Gender Pay Gap By Providing Equal Opportunities: The Need For Tenured Female Professors In Higher Stem Institutions In An Effort To Recast Gender Norms, Claire R. Rollor

Women, Leadership & Equality

No abstract provided.


Gender Neutrality And The “Violence Against Women” Frame, Julie Goldscheid 2014 CUNY School of Law

Gender Neutrality And The “Violence Against Women” Frame, Julie Goldscheid

Publications and Research

The challenge of sustaining a progressive framework that continues to resonate in the complex aftermath of a generation of reforms lies at the heart of many current debates about gender violence legal and policy reform. This Article addresses one longstanding issue: the way gender violence is framed in law, policy, and popular rhetoric. Many initiatives continue to use the gender-specific “violence against women” frame as a default description. That “woman-specific” frame, developed in service of feminist goals such as foregrounding and challenging gender bias and fostering more inclusive delivery of social and other services, now raises empirical, theoretical, political and …


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