The Marital Rape Exemption: A Violation Of A Woman's Right Of Privacy,
Golden Gate University School of Law
The Marital Rape Exemption: A Violation Of A Woman's Right Of Privacy, Maria Pracher
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment reviews the statutory status of the marital rape exemption, examines its historical origins, and critically analyzes the legal justifications supporting the exemption. The final section discusses the relation between the marital rape exemption and a woman's constitutional right of privacy.
Sex, Rape And Shame,
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Sex, Rape And Shame, Katharine K. Baker
All Faculty Scholarship
This article explores how shame sanctions may be able to change the social meaning and decrease the prevalence of date rape. Arguing that men's tendency to date rape is fostered by social norms that treat sex as an accomplishment and, importantly, an accomplishment that enhances a man's masculinity status, the article suggests that one way to curb date rape is to curb the extent to which it is associated with masculine behavior. This strategy is necessary because the high premium society places on masculinity and the cultural confusion about when date rape is morally wrong and how it ...
The Marital Rape Exemption: Evolution To Extinction,
Cleveland State University
The Marital Rape Exemption: Evolution To Extinction, Lalenya Weintraub Siegel
Cleveland State Law Review
It is the position of this Note that true equality between women and men can never exist until every state has completely abolished the marital rape exemption. This abolishment would give every woman, married or unmarried, the freedom to control her own body. The purpose of this Note is to encourage legislators, and those who influence them across the United States, to complete the abolishment of the marital rape exemption. Part II of this Note presents an analysis of the common law origins and legal justifications for the marital exemption. Part III examines the progressive groundbreaking states which have set ...
The Economics Of Dowry: Causes And Effects Of An Indian Tradition,
Harvard University
The Economics Of Dowry: Causes And Effects Of An Indian Tradition, Tonushree Jaggi
University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics
I argue that dowries exist because of a combination of two reasons. First, there is an excess supply of women in the Indian marriage market that results in the use of dowry as an equilibrating mechanism. Secondly, a differential in the patterns of human capital accumulation of men and women have led to a larger positive benefit from marriage for women than for men, the net difference of which is theoretically equivalent to the amount of the dowry. Both these explanations for the existence of dowry are fundamentally grounded in the powerful social and cultural ideologies of marriage held by ...
Gender Bias In The Roman Catholic Church: Why Can't Women Be Priests?,
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Gender Bias In The Roman Catholic Church: Why Can't Women Be Priests?, Cheryl Y. Haskins
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Financial Freedom: Women, Money, And Domestic Abuse,
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.
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights,
Trinity College, Oxford
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights, Muna Ndulo
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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 ...
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution,
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law
No abstract provided.
The Legacy Of Colonialism: Law And Women's Rights In India,
University of Florida Levin College of Law
The Legacy Of Colonialism: Law And Women's Rights In India, Varsha Chitnis, Danaya C. Wright
UF Law Faculty Publications
The relationship between nineteenth century England and colonial India was complex in terms of negotiating the different constituencies that claimed an interest in the economic and moral development of the colonies. After India became subject to the sovereignty of the English Monarchy in 1858, its future became indelibly linked with that of England's, yet India's own unique history and culture meant that many of the reforms the colonialists set out to undertake worked out differently than they anticipated. In particular, the colonial ambition of civilizing the barbaric native Indian male underlay many of the legal reforms attempted in ...
Marriage, Divorce, And Inheritance Laws In Sierra Leone
And Their Discriminatory Effects On Women,
American University Washington College of Law
Marriage, Divorce, And Inheritance Laws In Sierra Leone And Their Discriminatory Effects On Women, Pamela O. Davies
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
