Homonationalism, State Rationalities, And Sex Contradictions,
2013
CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY Brooklyn College
Homonationalism, State Rationalities, And Sex Contradictions, Paisley Currah
Publications and Research
Celebrating the re-election of Barack Obama as a win for GLB equality or denouncing the focus on marriage rights as heteronormative misses the point. Both approaches obscure what actually happens in local sites where authority is exercised. Looking into the cracks and crevices of regulatory apparatuses generates a more complex picture. In examining contradictory rules on sex classification, for example, it becomes clear those contradictions often reflect different state projects, such as security, distribution, reproduction. Construing the election as a victory for gay rights or for homonormativity elevates grand concepts—marriage, the state—over the quotidian actions that regulate life.
City Faces Trans Woman’S Claim Of Hostile Treatment,
2013
New York Law School
City Faces Trans Woman’S Claim Of Hostile Treatment, Arthur S. Leonard
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Us Ninth Circuit Revives Russian Gay Asylum Seeker’S Bid,
2013
New York Law School
Us Ninth Circuit Revives Russian Gay Asylum Seeker’S Bid, Arthur S. Leonard
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
What If No Majorities Emerge On Doma, Prop 8?,
2013
New York Law School
What If No Majorities Emerge On Doma, Prop 8?, Arthur S. Leonard
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
The Methodological Imperatives Of Feminist Ethnography,
2013
Ohio Wesleyan University
The Methodological Imperatives Of Feminist Ethnography, Richelle D. Schrock
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Feminist ethnography does not have a single, coherent definition and is caught between struggles over the definition and goals of feminism and the multiple practices known collectively as ethnography. Towards the end of the 1980s, debates emerged that problematized feminist ethnography as a productive methodology and these debates still haunt feminist ethnographers today. In this article, I provide a concise historiography of feminist ethnography that summarizes both its promises and its vulnerabilities. I address the three major challenges I argue feminist ethnographers currently face, which include responding productively to feminist critiques of representing "others," accounting for feminisms' commitment to social …
From The Editors,
2013
University of New Hamsphire
From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Moving Beyond "Slaves, Sinners, And Saviors": An Intersectional Feminist Analysis Of Us Sex-Trafficking Discourses, Law And Policy,
2013
Smith College
Moving Beyond "Slaves, Sinners, And Saviors": An Intersectional Feminist Analysis Of Us Sex-Trafficking Discourses, Law And Policy, Carrie N. Baker
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This article analyzes stories and images of sex trafficking in current mainstream US public discourses, including government publications, NGO materials, news media, and popular films. Noting the similarities and differences among these discourses, the first part demonstrates that they often frame sex trafficking using a rescue narrative that reiterates traditional beliefs and values regarding gender, sexuality, and nationality, relying heavily on patriarchal and orientalist tropes. Reflecting this rescue narrative, mainstream public policies focus on criminal justice solutions to trafficking. The second part suggests alternative frameworks that empower rather than rescue trafficked people. The article argues that the dominant criminal justice …
The Slutwalk Movement: A Study In Transnational Feminist Activism,
2013
Western Michigan University
The Slutwalk Movement: A Study In Transnational Feminist Activism, Joetta L. Carr
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
In the past two years the term "slut" ricocheted through the North American media and showed up on signs and banners on every continent as young feminists and their allies launched a series of demonstrations under the name of SlutWalks. In January 2011, a Toronto police officer told students at York University that if women wanted to avoid rape they should not dress like sluts. This incident sparked international outrage, with protests spreading quickly throughout the world, and revealed the misogyny and victim-blaming vitriol that characterize contemporary patriarchal culture. In the wake of the global SlutWalk movement, important questions have …
Breaking The Gender Binary: Feminism And Transgressive Female Desire In Lucía Etxebarria's Beatriz Y Los Cuerpos Celestes And La Eva Futura/La Letra Futura,
2013
Marquette University
Breaking The Gender Binary: Feminism And Transgressive Female Desire In Lucía Etxebarria's Beatriz Y Los Cuerpos Celestes And La Eva Futura/La Letra Futura, Lauren Applegate
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
The popular texts of Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria have created a polemical social phenomenon in contemporary Spain for their blatant depiction of a world of violence, drugs, and experimental sex of the late-millennium youth culture of Generación X. These topics, along with Etxebarria's public persona and feminist ideology, have fomented much public criticism and given rise to discussion of the current status of feminism, gender norms, and women's authorship in Spain today. This article analyzes Etxebarria's novel Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes and her collection of feminist essays La Eva futura/La letra futura, demonstrating that Etxebarria's depiction of female desire …
Third Wave Feminism's Unhappy Marriage Of Poststructuralism And Intersectionality Theory,
2013
University of New Orleans
Third Wave Feminism's Unhappy Marriage Of Poststructuralism And Intersectionality Theory, Susan Archer Mann
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This article first traces the history of unhappy marriages of disparate theoretical perspectives in US feminism. In recent decades, US third-wave authors have arranged their own unhappy marriage in that their major publications reflect an attempt to wed poststructuralism with intersectionality theory. Although the standpoint epistemology of intersectionality theory shares some common ground with the epistemology of poststructuralism, their epistemological assumptions conflict on a number of important dimensions. This contested terrain has generated serious debates within the third wave and between second- and thirdwave feminists. The form, content, and political implications of their "unhappy marriage" are the subject of this …
Toward A New Age Of Consumer Access Rights: Creating Space In The Public Accommodation For The Lgbt Community,
2013
University of New Mexico School of Law
Toward A New Age Of Consumer Access Rights: Creating Space In The Public Accommodation For The Lgbt Community, Justin Muehlmeyer
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
The article advocates for an expanded interpretation of public accommodation laws to include LGBT individuals, arguing that current legal frameworks often fail to address their unique experiences of discrimination. It emphasizes the need to modernize the definition of public accommodations to encompass contemporary spaces where cultural interactions occur, such as schools and photography services, while proposing limited exemptions to accommodate religious beliefs. The analysis underscores the ongoing tension between anti-discrimination laws and First Amendment rights, highlighting the human impact of these legal battles through compelling cases and statistics.
Panel 1: Race To The Vote,
2013
New York State Office of the Attorney General
Panel 1: Race To The Vote, Kristen Clarke, Keesha Gaskins, Ekow Yankah, Janai Nelson
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
Symposium: By the People, for the People... But Which People? (January 30, 2013)
Constitutional Limitations On Closing The Gender Gap In Employment,
2013
Saint Louis University School of Law
Constitutional Limitations On Closing The Gender Gap In Employment, Marcia L. Mccormick
All Faculty Scholarship
Despite our country’s efforts to eliminate it, there remain pay and achievement gaps between men and women in the workplace. This article summarizes legal approaches to close the gap, constitutional developments that have slowed government’s power to address the inequality, worrisome trends in recent cases, and the implications of these. This article proposes a future of utilizing congress’s taxing power to address inequalities.
The Difference A Justice May Make: Remarks At The Symposium For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
The Difference A Justice May Make: Remarks At The Symposium For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Suzanne Baer
Articles
First, I will briefly summarize the state of the art of equality law in Germany today. A distinct dimension of this story from a European Union member state is that we are not just theorizing postnational constitutionalism these days, but that we live it already, since law is not anymore isolated as national but needs to be seen in the context of transnational migration and multinational regimes. Second, I turn to a key feature and key challenge in and to equality law today. It is what I have called the triangle of fundamental rights, referring to the three most prominent …
Black Women's Post-Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant Of Slavery, Jim Crow, And Systemic Racism--Who Will Tell Her Stories?,
2013
FAMU College of Law
Black Women's Post-Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant Of Slavery, Jim Crow, And Systemic Racism--Who Will Tell Her Stories?, Patricia A. Broussard
Journal Publications
One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after putting all of the children in their beds, the children's father, her brother-in-law, knocked on the door. The young woman assumed that he had come over to see his children and to bring them news of their mother …
Women And Judging: A Feminist Approach To Judging And The Issue Of Customary Law (Eleventh Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture),
2013
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Women And Judging: A Feminist Approach To Judging And The Issue Of Customary Law (Eleventh Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture), Susan H. Williams
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
After Dothard: Female Correctional Workers And The Challenge To Employment Law,
2013
American University Washington College of Law
After Dothard: Female Correctional Workers And The Challenge To Employment Law, Brenda V. Smith, Melissa C. Loomis
Project on Addressing Prison Rape - Articles
This article examines a profession where women have made great strides - corrections. Using an equality framework, corrections and other non-traditional professions were the first target of the feminist movement in the 1970s. By and large, feminists were successful in creating greater porosity for women in law enforcement, emergency services, corrections, and the military. While women have entered these traditionally masculine spaces, they still suffer from an achievement gap. They are still underrepresented in leadership positions and marginalized in these settings; are still the targets of discrimination based on race, gender, and perceived sexual orientation; and are less likely than …
E Proper Remedy For Possession Of Child Pornography: Shifting From Restitution To A Victims Compensation Program,
2013
New York Law School, 2012
E Proper Remedy For Possession Of Child Pornography: Shifting From Restitution To A Victims Compensation Program, Michelle Minarcik
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Is Adr The Solution? How Adr Gets Around The Get Controversy In Jewish Divorce,
2013
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Is Adr The Solution? How Adr Gets Around The Get Controversy In Jewish Divorce, Aviva Vogelstein
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
The New York State government in particular has attempted to find creative solutions to the modern problems associated with Jewish divorce issues. This Note first gives a brief historical background of the beth din and the reasons for its authority, elucidating why alternative dispute resolution (ADR) benefits the American legal system and explaining how and why the beth din serves as a preferred method of ADR in contemporary America. Using New York as a case study, this Note then proposes that, although New York civil legislative solutions and tort claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress may sometimes achieve satisfactory …
Revisiting Mary Ann Glendon: Abortion, Divorce, Dependency, And Rights Talk In Western Law,
2013
Notre Dame Law School
Revisiting Mary Ann Glendon: Abortion, Divorce, Dependency, And Rights Talk In Western Law, Margaret F. Brinig, Linda C. Mcclain
Journal Articles
This essay revisits Mary Ann Glendon’s comparative law study, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law and her subsequent book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. Glendon’s comparative study actually included a third topic: “forms of dependency which are connected with pregnancy, marriage, and child raising.” The topic of dependency has obvious relevance to consideration of intergenerational obligations and the interplay between family responsibility and societal responsibility for addressing dependency needs. A central claim Glendon made in both books is that the U.S. legal tradition is “libertarian,” views individuals as “lone rights bearers,” and exalts the “right to be …
