The Social Construction Of A Rape Victim: Stories Of African-American Males About The Rape Of Desiree Washington,
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
The Social Construction Of A Rape Victim: Stories Of African-American Males About The Rape Of Desiree Washington, Kevin D. Brown
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Race To Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations Among Women,
University of Minnesota Law School
The Race To Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations Among Women, Mary Louise Fellows, Sherene Razack
Articles
No abstract provided.
The Gang-Rape Of Mukhtar Mai And Pakistan's Opportunity To Regain Its Lost Honor,
American University Washington College of Law
The Gang-Rape Of Mukhtar Mai And Pakistan's Opportunity To Regain Its Lost Honor, Tina Karkera
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases,
University of Michigan Law School
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases, Sonja Starr
Law & Economics Working Papers
This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. Prior studies have reported much smaller sentence gaps because they have ignored the role of charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing fact-finding in producing sentences. Most studies control for endogenous severity measures that result from these earlier discretionary processes and use samples that have been winnowed by …
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.
Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy,
University of Maryland School of Law
Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman
Faculty Scholarship
Legal doctrines banning polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons betrayed the nation by engaging in conduct associated with people of color. This article reveals the racial underpinnings of polygamy law by examining cartoons and other antipolygamy rhetoric of the time to demonstrate Sir Henry Maine’s famous observation that the move in progressive societies is “from status to contract.” It frames antipolygamists’ contentions as a visceral defense of racial and sexual status in the face of encroaching contractual thinking. Polygamy, they reasoned, was “natural” for people of color but so “unnatural” for whites as to produce a …
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.
Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, And Michelle Obama: Performing Gender, Race, And Class On The Campaign Trail,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, And Michelle Obama: Performing Gender, Race, And Class On The Campaign Trail, Ann C. Mcginley
Scholarly Works
The 2008 Presidential campaign highlighted three strong, interesting, and very different women -- Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Obama -- who negotiated identity performances in the political limelight. Because of their diverse backgrounds, experience, and ages, an examination of how these three women performed their identities and the public response to them offers a rich understanding of the changing nature of gender, gender roles, age, sexuality and race in our culture. This essay suggests that optimism that Obama's race and gender performances may have removed the stigma from "the feminine" may be misplaced, at least when it comes to …
Babies Behind Bars: An Evaluation Of Prison Nurseries In American Female Prisons And Their Potential Constitutional Challenges,
Pace University School of Law
Babies Behind Bars: An Evaluation Of Prison Nurseries In American Female Prisons And Their Potential Constitutional Challenges, Seham Elmalak
Pace Law Review
This note opens the prison doors and delves into the United States female prison system, primarily focusing on the positive and negative impact of nursery programs on mothers and children, along with potential constitutional claims that can be brought against these programs. Part I provides a general background about the American prison system, and briefly touches on the constitutional standards of prisoners’ rights. It also discusses the history and development of female prisons and illustrates the rapid increase of female incarceration. Part II focuses on the prevalence of mothers within the female population in prisons. Part III introduces prison nursery …
Gender, Discourse, And Customary Law In Africa,
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Gender, Discourse, And Customary Law In Africa, Johanna E. Bond
Scholarly Articles
Around the world, efforts by states to accommodate cultural pluralism vary in form and vigor. Some multiculturalist states cede to cultural minorities the authority to govern in certain substantive areas, such as family law. Not surprisingly, feminists have raised concerns that a state’s reluctance to govern in areas traditionally seen as “private,” and leaving those areas of law to customary legal systems, leaves women within those minority communities vulnerable to discrimination. Many women value cultural identity, even as they work to eliminate discrimination within their cultural communities. The international human rights community, however, has not always viewed women as committed, …
