Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Women and the Law: A "Greatest Hits" of Scholarship from the Past Year
I just published the 2015 edition of Women and the Law for West.
This is an annual collection of what I call the "greatest hits" in legal scholarship from the past year on women's rights. It includes sections on reproductive rights, family, employment, domestic violence, feminist theory, and sometimes education.
Here's this year's awesome lineup.
Introduction and Summary, Tracy Thomas
Reproductive Rights
Abortion Distortions, Caroline Mala Corbin
Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic and the New Constitutional Battlefront, Michele Goodwin
Abortion and the Constitutional Right (Not) to Procreate, Mary Ziegler
Bearing Children, Bearing Risks: Feminist Leadership for Progressive Regulation of Compensated Surrogacy in the United States, Sara L. Ainsworth
Feminism and the Family Law
Unprotected Sex: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 35, Deborah L. Brake & Joanna L. Grossman
Reframing the Work-Family Conflict Debate by Rejecting the Ideal Parent Norm, Jennifer H. Sperling
Spousal Support in the 21st Century, Judith G. McMullen
Digging Beneath the Equality Language: The Influence of the Fathers' Rights Movement on Intimate Partner Violence Public Policy Debates and Family Law Reform, Kelly Alison Behre
Violence Against Women
Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women's Syndrome, and Violence as Male Privilege,Mary Anne Franks
Enjoining Abuse: The Case for Indefinite Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Jane K. Stoever
Love Matters, Tamara L. Kuennen
Financial Freedom: Women, Money, and Domestic Abuse, Dana Harrington Conner
A Home with Dignity: Domestic Violence and Property Rights, Margaret E. Johnson
Women in the Workplace
Twenty Years of Compromise: How the Caps on Damages in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 Codified Sex Discrimination, Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt
Two Very Different Stories: Vicarious Liability Under Tort and Title VII Law, Martha Chamallas
It's Complicated: Age, Gender, and Lifetime Discrimination Against Working Women—The United States and the U.K. as Examples, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant
Feminist Legal Theory
State Responsibility for Gender Stereotyping, Barbara Stark
Rights of Belonging for Women, Rebecca E. Zietlow
The New Sex Discrimination, Zachary A. Kramer
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2015/09/i-just-published-the-2015-edition-of-women-and-the-lawfor-west-this-is-an-annual-collection-of-what-i-call-the-greatest-hit.html