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From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner 2011 University of New Hamsphire

From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Agnieszka Graff 2011 Warsaw University

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Agnieszka Graff

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Joy A. James 2011 University of Texas at Austin

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Joy A. James

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Michael Kimmel 2011 SUNY Stony Brook

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Michael Kimmel

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Elizabeth Grosz 2011 Rutgers University

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Elizabeth Grosz

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Toril Moi 2011 Duke University

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Toril Moi

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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Healthism And The Bodies Of Women: Pleasure And Discipline In The War Against Obesity, Talia L. Welsh 2011 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Healthism And The Bodies Of Women: Pleasure And Discipline In The War Against Obesity, Talia L. Welsh

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This paper explores how the discipline required for good health influences female embodiment. It examines the justification in the United States for a war against obesity and the criticism of that war made by Health at Every Size (HAES) proponents. It finds that a "good-health imperative" operates within both the fight against obesity and the size-acceptance movement. I question how such an imperative curtails the range of possibilities for pleasure. The self-monitoring required in eating and exercising for health demands a constant reading of one's behavior as good/healthy or bad/unhealthy. In addition, attention to health achieved through behavior modification draws …


New Age Fairy Tales: The Abject Female Hero In El Laberinto Del Fauno And La Rebelión De Los Conejos Mágicos, Patricia Lapolla Swier 2011 Wake Forest University

New Age Fairy Tales: The Abject Female Hero In El Laberinto Del Fauno And La Rebelión De Los Conejos Mágicos, Patricia Lapolla Swier

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In totalitarian regimes, the Other is marginalized, prosecuted, and often eliminated from the national spectrum. While Spain is just beginning to confront the violations of the post-Civil War era, the nations of the Latin American Southern Cone have continued to struggle with the trauma and memory related to the violence perpetrated by the dictatorship. Through a psychoanalytic reading based on Julia Kristeva's theories of the abject and Joseph Campbell's investigations of myth within the hero's journey, I show how the young female heroes of El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) and La rebelión de los conejos mágicos (The Rabbits' Rebellion) …


The Rise And Fall Of Western Homohysteria, Eric Anderson 2011 University of Winchester

The Rise And Fall Of Western Homohysteria, Eric Anderson

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In this essay, I draw upon my pro-feminist background to describe the formulation of the concept of homohysteria and explain its heuristic utility in conceptualizing historical shifts in heterosexual men's gendered regimes. I suggest that in times of high homohysteria, heterosexual men are compelled to align their identities and behaviors with orthodox (hypermasculine) notions of men's masculinity. This is in order to avoid homosexualization. Conversely, heterosexual men retain considerably more gendered freedom in times of low or no homohysteria. I describe this as a cultural process related to homophobia and define the term homohysteria as men's fear of being homosexualized, …


Feminist Debate In Taiwan's Buddhism: The Issue Of The Eight Garudhammas, Chiung Hwang Chen 2011 Brigham Young University-Hawaii

Feminist Debate In Taiwan's Buddhism: The Issue Of The Eight Garudhammas, Chiung Hwang Chen

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In 2001, during an academic conference on Humanistic Buddhism in Taipei, Venerable Shi Zhaohui, accompanied by a few Buddhist clergy and laypeople, tore apart a copy of the Eight Garudhammas (Eight Heavy Rules), regulations that govern the behavior of Buddhist nuns. Zhaohui's symbolic act created instant controversy as Taiwan's Buddhist community argued about the rules' authenticity and other issues within Buddhist monastic affairs. This paper examines the debate over the Eight Garudhammas and situates the debate within Taiwan's cultural terrain as well as the worldwide Buddhist feminist movement. I argue that while Zhaohui's call resulted in the abolishment of the …


Grappling With Gender: Exploring Masculinity And Gender In The Bodies, Performances, And Emotions Of Scholastic Wrestlers, Phyllis L. Baker, Douglas R. Hotek 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Grappling With Gender: Exploring Masculinity And Gender In The Bodies, Performances, And Emotions Of Scholastic Wrestlers, Phyllis L. Baker, Douglas R. Hotek

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

We contribute to the sociology of sport and gender literature with an ethnographic analysis of scholastic wrestling by observing the current climate of masculinity and gender. Our results suggest that it is necessary to understand men and sporting behavior within a broader framework of gender, not just masculinity, because the behavior of high school wrestlers fell along a gender continuum between an orthodox masculinity and femininity. Our exploration of the body, performance, and emotion practices of scholastic wrestlers gives credence to the current critiques of a hegemonic masculinity in men's sports. We show that gender is not dichotomous and that …


Mancession Or Momcession? Good Providers, A Bad Economy, And Gender Discrimination, Allison Anna Tait 2011 University of Richmond

Mancession Or Momcession? Good Providers, A Bad Economy, And Gender Discrimination, Allison Anna Tait

Law Faculty Publications

Against this backdrop of precarious and disappearing work, two new elements became important: who was out of work, and how those still employed were navigating bad jobs. These questions laid the foundation for a flood of stories concerning unemployment and bad employment. Unsurprisingly, gender played a leading role in the debates. This article will discuss these two concerns--employment and workplace discrimination-as they intersect with gender and gender stereotypes.


Comments: Needlessly Fighting An Uphill Battle: Extensive Estate Planning Complications Faced By Gay And Lesbian Individuals, Including Drastic Resort To Adult Adoption Of Same-Sex Partners, Necessitate Revision Of Maryland's Intestacy Law To Provide Heir-At-Law Status For Domestic Partners, Madeleine N. Foltz 2011 University of Baltimore School of Law

Comments: Needlessly Fighting An Uphill Battle: Extensive Estate Planning Complications Faced By Gay And Lesbian Individuals, Including Drastic Resort To Adult Adoption Of Same-Sex Partners, Necessitate Revision Of Maryland's Intestacy Law To Provide Heir-At-Law Status For Domestic Partners, Madeleine N. Foltz

University of Baltimore Law Review

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It's The Hard Luck Life: Women's Moral Luck And Eucatastrophe In Child Custody Allocation, Lolita Buckner Inniss 2011 Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law

It's The Hard Luck Life: Women's Moral Luck And Eucatastrophe In Child Custody Allocation, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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African-American Grandmothers: Does The Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply? Essay Response To Professor Beth Richie, Jessica Dixon Weaver 2011 Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law

African-American Grandmothers: Does The Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply? Essay Response To Professor Beth Richie, Jessica Dixon Weaver

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Many African-American grandmothers are entrapped by the cycle of incarceration in poor black communities. This Essay explores whether the social and economic conditions that compel battered women to commit crimes also impact their mothers - who end up raising the children they leave behind. Professor Beth Richie's theory of gender entrapment as described in her book, “Compelled to Crime,” is not limited to incarcerated women who have been victims of domestic violence. African-American grandmothers who take on the role of kinship caregivers for their grandchildren are also entrapped by a complex interplay of race, gender, and class, making them vulnerable …


How Goliath Won: The Future Implications Of Dukes V. Wal-Mart, Suzette M. Malveaux 2011 University of Colorado Law School

How Goliath Won: The Future Implications Of Dukes V. Wal-Mart, Suzette M. Malveaux

Publications

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Discrimination By Comparison, Suzanne B. Goldberg 2011 Columbia Law School

Discrimination By Comparison, Suzanne B. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

Contemporary discrimination law is in crisis, both methodologically and conceptually. The crisis arises in large part from the judiciary's dependence on comparators – those who are like a discrimination claimant but for the protected characteristic – as a favored heuristic for observing discrimination. The profound mismatch of the comparator methodology with current understandings of identity discrimination and the realities of the modern workplace has nearly depleted discrimination jurisprudence and theory. Even in run-of-the-mill cases, comparators often cannot be found, particularly in today's mobile, knowledge-based economy. This difficulty is amplified for complex claims, which rest on thicker understandings of discrimination developed …


Ratifying Cedaw: Is The United States Falling Behind On Women's Rights? , Jessica Sanchez 2011 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law

Ratifying Cedaw: Is The United States Falling Behind On Women's Rights? , Jessica Sanchez

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Green Jackets In Men's Sizes Only: Gender Discrimination At Private Country Clubs, Thaddeus M. Lenkiewicz 2011 Vanderbilt University Law School

Green Jackets In Men's Sizes Only: Gender Discrimination At Private Country Clubs, Thaddeus M. Lenkiewicz

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

On November 3, 2009, the Supreme Court of Ireland held that the Portmarnock Golf Club could maintain its rule prohibiting female membership free from the sanctions of Ireland's antidiscrimination laws. Portmarnock is representative of the numerous private golf clubs that continue to promote discrimination against women. Despite significant advances in gender equality, private country clubs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland remain bastions of codified gender discrimination. Many of the most prominent golf clubs hold firmly to discriminatory policies established generations ago. Opposition to these policies has come in various forms of protest and litigation, with mixed …


Toward More Parsimony And Transparency In "The Essentials Of Marriage", Anita Bernstein 2011 Brooklyn Law School

Toward More Parsimony And Transparency In "The Essentials Of Marriage", Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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