Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations, Volume 1D. Kelly Weisberg Temple University Press, 1993 - 620 pages |
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... persons in private employment who were unable to work but excluded from coverage disabilities resulting from pregnancy . This position was effectively reaffirmed in General Electric v . Gilbert , 25 in which the exclusion of pregnancy ...
... persons in private employment who were unable to work but excluded from coverage disabilities resulting from pregnancy . This position was effectively reaffirmed in General Electric v . Gilbert , 25 in which the exclusion of pregnancy ...
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... persons alike , and unlike persons unlike . 1 Under this model , when legal distinctions are made , the responsible sovereign must point to some difference between subjects which justifies their disparate treatment.2 That was the model ...
... persons alike , and unlike persons unlike . 1 Under this model , when legal distinctions are made , the responsible sovereign must point to some difference between subjects which justifies their disparate treatment.2 That was the model ...
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... person or that person shall win , based upon some " essential " difference in their situations . One must be shown to be unworthy and wrong . One must be transformed into the " other . " Perhaps there is something in the paradigm of ...
... person or that person shall win , based upon some " essential " difference in their situations . One must be shown to be unworthy and wrong . One must be transformed into the " other . " Perhaps there is something in the paradigm of ...
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... person in mastering his life and expressing this mastery to others . " Id . at 82 . 20. As MacKinnon says regarding pornography : " To liberals , speech must never be sacrificed for other social goals . But liberalism has never ...
... person in mastering his life and expressing this mastery to others . " Id . at 82 . 20. As MacKinnon says regarding pornography : " To liberals , speech must never be sacrificed for other social goals . But liberalism has never ...
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... person or thing it must not be used to justify hierarchies of power . Feminists do not all think in the same way or even about the same kinds of problems . There are feminists working in all disciplines . There is , however , a ...
... person or thing it must not be used to justify hierarchies of power . Feminists do not all think in the same way or even about the same kinds of problems . There are feminists working in all disciplines . There is , however , a ...
Contents
Martha Minow | 301 |
Introduction | 335 |
Angela P Harris | 348 |
Patricia A Cain | 359 |
Marlee Kline | 371 |
Introduction | 399 |
Diane Polan | 419 |
Mari J Matsuda | 476 |
EQUAL TREATMENT VERSUS | 119 |
Wendy W Williams | 128 |
Linda J Krieger and Patricia N Cooney | 156 |
Herma Hill | 180 |
Finley | 190 |
Introduction | 211 |
Mary E Becker | 221 |
Patricia A Cain | 237 |
Christine A Littleton | 248 |
Diana Majury | 264 |
Catharine A MacKinnon | 276 |
Ruth Colker | 288 |
Frances Olsen | 485 |
Patricia J Williams | 496 |
Schneider | 507 |
Introduction | 529 |
Katharine T Bartlett | 550 |
Finley | 571 |
Marie Ashe | 582 |
Patricia J Williams | 594 |
Table of Cases | 603 |
Contributors | 619 |
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Page 34 - Re-vision— the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction — is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
Page 145 - because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions; and women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work, and nothing in Section 703(h) of this title shall be interpreted...
Page 21 - There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of 'romantic paternalism' which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Page 283 - ... their military service defines citizenship, their presence defines family, their inability to get along with each other — their wars and rulerships — defines history, their image defines god, and their genitals define sex.
Page 19 - The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.
Page 278 - Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
Page 417 - ... her physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Page 19 - Man is, or should be woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood. The harmony, not to say identity, of interests and views which belong or should belong...
Page 86 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.