From The Editors,
2012
University of New Hamsphire
From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Staying Home While Studying Abroad: Anti-Imperial Praxis For Globalizing Feminist Visions,
2012
Kansas State University
Staying Home While Studying Abroad: Anti-Imperial Praxis For Globalizing Feminist Visions, Shireen Roshanravan
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This paper hinges on the recognition that when study-abroad opportunities are presented and perceived as a means of access to global perspectives on women and gender, they reduce the problem of US-centrism in Women's Studies to a geographic rather than an epistemic limitation. According to this logic, physical travel away from the United States can serve as an effective method for overcoming US-centrism and attending to the "global," a curricular strategy that Chandra Mohanty and M. Jacqui Alexander call "the cartographic rule of the transnational as always 'elsewhere'" (Mohanty and Alexander 2010, 33). This cartographic rule reinforces hegemonic representations of …
The Problem Of Protection: Rethinking Rhetoric Of Normalizing Surgeries,
2012
Augustana College
The Problem Of Protection: Rethinking Rhetoric Of Normalizing Surgeries, Amy Falvey
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This essay focuses on the rhetoric of protection that emerges around infants who face the prospect of normalizing surgeries. Frequently, decisions to proceed with normalizing surgeries are made by doctors and parents with "protection" of the infant as a motivating force. "Protection," in such contexts, typically refers to protection of the infant from the inhospitable world that lies in wait for an individual whose body does not conform to social, morphological, and biological norms. While this concern may be valid and important, this essay argues that there are alternative narratives or notions of protection that must also be acknowledged and …
Novas Cartas Portuguesas: The Making Of A Reputation,
2012
University of Cambridge
Novas Cartas Portuguesas: The Making Of A Reputation, Ana Margarida Dias Martins
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), co-authored by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, was banned in 1972 in Portugal for exploring sensitive issues such as women's oppression under the Catholic patriarchy. Given that police action against the authors soon became the focus of an international feminist protest in 1972-73, existing discussions of the book's reception often focus almost exclusively on what may be called its political life. I propose to approach the book from a new angle, with the purpose of uncovering its theoretical dimension as a literary-critical text that may have played an …
From The Editors,
2012
University of New Hamsphire
From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Negotiating The Insider/Outsider Status: Black Feminist Ethnography And Legislative Studies,
2012
St. Louis University
Negotiating The Insider/Outsider Status: Black Feminist Ethnography And Legislative Studies, Nadia E. Brown
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This essay bridges the gaps in the literature within legislative studies by illustrating the usefulness of feminist ethnography as a methodological intervention into studying legislative behavior. Black feminist epistemology is a useful tool for making new knowledge claims within an existing body of knowledge. I use anecdotes and examples from my fieldwork in the Maryland state legislature to expose how race and gender impact both the process and the outcome of data collection. I demonstrate how my experience as an African American woman researcher whose work centers on Black women Maryland state legislators, which I situate within Black feminist epistemology, …
The Politics Of Writing, Writing Politics: Virginia Woolf’S A [Virtual] Room Of One’S Own,
2012
University of Alberta
The Politics Of Writing, Writing Politics: Virginia Woolf’S A [Virtual] Room Of One’S Own, Tegan Zimmerman
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This article revisits A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s foundational 1929 text on women’s writing. I examine from a feminist materialist perspective the relevance of Woolf’s notion of a “room” in our globalized and technological twenty-first century. I first review Woolf’s position on the material conditions necessary for women writers in her own time and then the applicability of her thinking for contemporary women writers on a global scale. I emphasize that the politics of writing, and in particular writing by women, that Woolf puts forth gives feminists the necessary tools to reevaluate and rethink women’s writing both online …
Irish American Women: Forgotten First-Wave Feminists,
2012
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Irish American Women: Forgotten First-Wave Feminists, Sally Barr Ebest
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Numerous books have been written about American feminism and its influence on education and society. But none have recognized the key role played by Irish American women in exposing injustice and protecting their rights. Certainly their literary heritage, inherent knowledge of English, and membership in the single largest ethnic group gave them an advantage. But their dual positions as colonized, second-class citizens of their country and their religion gave them their political edge, a trait that has been evident since the Irish first stepped off the boat and that continues to this day. This essay focuses on the first wave …
Book Review, The Beauty Bias: The Injustice Of Appearance In Life And Law,
2012
University of South Dakota School of Law
Book Review, The Beauty Bias: The Injustice Of Appearance In Life And Law, Hannah Haksgaard
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities In Farm Transmission,
2012
University of South Dakota School of Law
Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities In Farm Transmission, Hannah Haksgaard
Faculty Publications
Farmers are farmers' sons. Notable in our modern day, heralded by many as a gender-neutral society, it is farmers' sons, not farmers' daughters, who become farmers and take over ownership and management of the family farm. It has long been true that agricultural knowledge and land have passed through generations of men. In contrast, daughters, even today, are neither considered to be farmers nor likely to inherit family farmland. This Article begins by chronicling how farmland is inherited (by sons) then discusses why the pattern of excluding women continues. There have been substantial legal changes in the United States impacting …
Motherhood And The Constitution: (Re)Thinking The Power Of Women To Facilitate Change,
2012
University of Richmond
Motherhood And The Constitution: (Re)Thinking The Power Of Women To Facilitate Change, Angela Mae Kupenda
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
However, this essay suggests a different, or additional, approach. Rather than focusing on the many barriers to equality originating from others, this essay focuses on women's power to forge equality. Some of this power is cloaked, unharnessed, and underutilized. This essay is intended to challenge women to reconstitute the power of motherhood as a means of transforming not only families, but also law and society. This essay suggests the power of women to be mothering teachers and teaching mothers. Women have a choice, even an affirmative duty, to unharness their power to facilitate change and shape a status quo of …
Breastfeeding In Custody Proceedings: A Modern-Day Manifestation Of Liberal And Conservative Family Traditions,
2012
University of Richmond
Breastfeeding In Custody Proceedings: A Modern-Day Manifestation Of Liberal And Conservative Family Traditions, Kate Baxter-Kauf
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
This Comment contends that cultural and legal representations of breastfeeding in custody determinations highlight contradictory notions of motherhood and family that mirror liberal and conservative family traditions thought to be long dead.
Cedaw And Rural Development: Empowering Women With Law From The Top Down, Activism From The Bottom Up,
2012
Law Offices of John F. Martin, P.C.
Cedaw And Rural Development: Empowering Women With Law From The Top Down, Activism From The Bottom Up, Marta R. Vanegas, Lisa R. Pruitt
University of Baltimore Law Review
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most widely ratified human rights treaties in history, yet many view it as a failure in terms of what it has achieved for women. In spite of the lack of a meaningful enforcement mechanism and various other shortcomings, however, CEDAW has inspired feminist activism around the world and helped raise women's legal consciousness. While CEDAW itself is widely viewed as a product of feminist activism in the international arena, this essay explores the Convention's role as a source of-and tool for-grassroots feminist activism. …
Cross-Dressers With Benefits: Female Combat Soldiers In The United States And Israel,
2012
University of Dayton School of Law
Cross-Dressers With Benefits: Female Combat Soldiers In The United States And Israel, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
University of Baltimore Law Review
No abstract provided.
The New Illegitimacy: Tying Parentage To Marital Status For Lesbian Co-Parents,
2012
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
The New Illegitimacy: Tying Parentage To Marital Status For Lesbian Co-Parents, Joanna L. Grossman
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Should a child be allowed two legal parents only if born into a marriage? For children of heterosexual parents, the answer, today, is definitively "no." Constitutional protection for parental rights does not permit the ties between an unwed father and his child to be severed simply because he is not married to the child's mother. But the answer is often different for the child of a lesbian mother. In a recent opinion, Debra H. v. Janice R., the New York Court of Appeals ruled that a lesbian co-parent- a woman who had participated in the conception, birth, and early rearing …
Sisters In Law: Black Women Lawyers' Struggle For Advancement,
2012
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Sisters In Law: Black Women Lawyers' Struggle For Advancement, Carla Pratt
Faculty Articles
While the presence of women in law school and the legal profession has improved greatly, the uncomfortable reality is that women tend to occupy positions in the legal profession that subordinate them to men. This reality is even more glaring when the position of black women is examined. Black women carry the burden of multiple consciousness which influences every aspect of their professional lives. Multiple consciousness means that black women must be mindful of their professional identity, their gender and their race in navigating the pipeline to power. This paper will explore the multiple consciousness that intersecting identities invoke and …
Surviving Castle Rock: The Human Rights Of Domestic Violence,
2012
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Surviving Castle Rock: The Human Rights Of Domestic Violence, Max D. Siegel
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
The article critically examines the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales and its broader implications for domestic violence survivors' rights. It argues that the Court's adherence to a "Negative Constitution," which limits government obligations to citizens, fails to protect vulnerable populations and violates international human rights standards. The article advocates for incorporating international law into U.S. jurisprudence to address systemic failures in responding to domestic violence.
Annotated Legal Bibliography On Gender,
2012
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Annotated Legal Bibliography On Gender
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Masthead, Cardozo Journal Of Law & Gender, Vol. 20 (2013–14),
2012
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Masthead, Cardozo Journal Of Law & Gender, Vol. 20 (2013–14)
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Circumcision Or Mutilation - Voluntary Or Forced Excision - Extricating The Ethical And Legal Issues In Female Genital Ritual,
2012
Centre for Health, Bioethics and Human Rights, Enugu, Nigeria
Circumcision Or Mutilation - Voluntary Or Forced Excision - Extricating The Ethical And Legal Issues In Female Genital Ritual, Obiajulu Nnamuchi
Journal of Law and Health
This Article consists of seven sections. Following the introduction, Part II reconstructs the debate as to whether Female Genital Ritual is a legitimate cultural practice or a human rights violation, and it sets forth the major arguments. Part III delves into, and debunks, the moral relativist argument regarding FGR. Part IV seeks to determine whether FGM is evil. A foray into the theory of evil, the section draws critical distinctions between FC and FGM and explains why the distinctions are of paramount moral importance. Part IV also concludes that FGM is evil, and thus, among the issues related to the …
