African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights,
2011
Cornell Law School
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights, Muna Ndulo
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The sources of law in most African countries are customary law, the common law and legislation both colonial and post-independence. In a typical African country, the great majority of the people conduct their personal activities in accordance with and subject to customary law. Customary law has great impact in the area of personal law in regard to matters such as marriage, inheritance and traditional authority, and because it developed in an era dominated by patriarchy some of its norms conflict with human rights norms guaranteeing equality between men and women. While recognizing the role of legislation in reform, it is …
Gender Inequality In The Law: Deficiencies Of Battered Woman Syndrome And A New Solution To Closing The Gender Gap In Self-Defense Law,
2011
Claremont McKenna College
Gender Inequality In The Law: Deficiencies Of Battered Woman Syndrome And A New Solution To Closing The Gender Gap In Self-Defense Law, Meredith C. Doyle
CMC Senior Theses
Dr. Lenore Walker developed battered woman syndrome to address the issue of domestic violence and to give battered women a defense in situations in which they kill their abusive partners when they are not overtly threatening them. Self-defense law is based on male on male combat. Women are less able to protect themselves in an attack by a man, and so they may preemptively attack their sleeping partners to avoid a situation in which they cannot adequately protect themselves. Battered woman syndrome explains why these battered women act in a way that is irrational to a non-battered person. Walker's theory …
Will We Finally See Courtroom Debate?,
2011
New York Law School
Will We Finally See Courtroom Debate?, Arthur S. Leonard
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Amherst College
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Amrita Basu
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Feminist Activist and Author
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Feminist Critic, Scholar, Poet, and Essayist
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Rachel Blau Duplessis
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
From The Editors,
2011
University of New Hamsphire
From The Editors, Anna M. Klobucka, Jeannette E. Riley, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Warsaw University
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Agnieszka Graff
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
University of Texas at Austin
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Joy A. James
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
SUNY Stony Brook
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Michael Kimmel
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Rutgers University
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Elizabeth Grosz
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today,
2011
Duke University
Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Toril Moi
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Healthism And The Bodies Of Women: Pleasure And Discipline In The War Against Obesity,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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 …
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,
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
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents - Cardozo Journal Of Law & Gender, Vol. 17, Iss. 2,
2011
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Table Of Contents - Cardozo Journal Of Law & Gender, Vol. 17, Iss. 2
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Annotated Legal Bibliography On Gender,
2011
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Annotated Legal Bibliography On Gender
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
No abstract provided.
