Category Archives: Feminism and Families

Sepper on “Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates”

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Bridget Crawford

Elizabeth Sepper (Washington University St. Louis) has posted to SSRN her working paper Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates,  Indiana L.J. (forthcoming 2014).  Here is the abstract: As an increasing number of state legislatures legalize same-sex marriage, some religious … Continue reading →

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Persad on “What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)”

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Bridget Crawford

Govind Persad (Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Stanford University) has posted to SSRN What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa).  Here is the abstract: Citizenship and marriage are legal statuses that generate numerous … Continue reading →

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Ben-Asher on “The Lawmaking Family”

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Bridget Crawford

Noa Ben-Asher (Pace) has posted to SSRN her working paper The Lawmaking Family.  Here is the abstract:  Increasingly there are conflicts over families trying to “opt out” of various legal structures, especially public school education. Examples of opting-out conflicts include … Continue reading →

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Of Husband Hunting and Diamond Mines

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Lolita Buckner Inniss

There has been a tremendous dust-up in response to Susan Patton’s (a member of the Princeton class of 1977) letter to the Daily Princetonian.  In her letter, Patton exhorts Princeton women to begin the task of husband hunting in their … Continue reading →

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On the Importance of Recognizing Women’s Role in Parenting

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Bridget Crawford

I read with interest the post Why we should be careful about taking the ‘maternity’ out of ‘parental leave’ over at Blue Milk.  I think the piece nicely summarizes some of the conservative undercurrents in the arguments surrounding gender-neutral parental leave … Continue reading →

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Student Reflection: Obstacles to Gender Equality at Work and Home, in Reaction to Rosenblum

Posted on March 15, 2013 by admin

The following is a guest post by Margaret Serrano, a student at Pace University School of Law (JD expected 2013). Pace Law School Professor Darren Rosenblum posted yesterday to his Huffington Post Blog (here) to criticize Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In … Continue reading →

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Joslin on “Marriage, Biology and Federal Benefits”

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Courtney Joslin (Davis) has posted to SSRN her article Marriage, Biology, and Federal Benefits, Iowa Law Review (forthcoming).  Here is the abstract: This Article approaches the topic of same-sex marriage from a novel perspective by scrutinizing the historical accuracy of … Continue reading →

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Lance MacMillian, “Adultery as Tort”

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Commenting on the Petraeus case, Katherine Franke posted here about the status of adultery as a crime in 27 jurisdictions.  Today I stumbled across an article by Lance McMillian (Atlanta’s John Marshall), Adultery as Tort, 95 N.C. L. Rev. 1987 … Continue reading →

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African Probate & Prolicy Initiative at U Miami School of Law

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

The ABA Journal reported here on the University of Miami School of Law’s new African Probate & Policy Initiative.  Here’s an excerpt: If a Tanzanian man dies without a will, his property goes to his family of origin. If he … Continue reading →

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Breastfeeding and the Law

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Ann Bartow

According to the NCSL: Forty-five states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws that specifically allow women to breastfeed in any public or private location. (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Indigenous Mothering

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Ann Bartow

  CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled Indigenous Mothering, Family and Community: International Perspectives Editors: Dr. D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Dr. Kim Anderson DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 7, 2013 The voices of Indigenous women … Continue reading →

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Women, Children and Public Health

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

My colleague Linda Fentiman will be delivering the James D. Hopkins Lecture — open to the public — on September 12, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. at Pace Law School.  The title of her talk is “Are Mothers Hazardous to their … Continue reading →

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Alimony Should Be Gender-Neutral

Posted on July 5, 2012 by admin

Marriage has been showing up in headlines across the country, from new stories trumpeting Obama’s statement of support for marriage equality to those debating the First Circuit’s judicial blow to DOMA. While shifts in access to legal marriage and the economic … Continue reading →

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Sexual Assualt Survivor on Being a Pro-Life Surrogate

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Kimberly, the “homeschooling mother of 4, surrogate mother of 2, and a military wife” over at A Little Crunchy, writes a bit about her decision to be a surrogate mother: I had been assaulted sexually when I was little, it twisted my … Continue reading →

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If Anne-Marie Slaughter is a Dropout, We’re Chopped Liver

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Over here at The American Prospect, E.J. Graff (Brandeis, Women’s Studies) has a great analysis of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All from the July/August issue of The Atlantic.  Graff responds to the italicized portions of … Continue reading →

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Loving is as Loving Does

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Lolita Buckner Inniss

On June 12, 1967, in the case Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law, thereby invalidating such laws across the country and allowing interracial couples across the nation to enter into legally recognized … Continue reading →

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Fenton, “An Essay on Slavery’s Hidden Legacy”

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Zanita Fenton (Miami) has published An Essay on Slavery’s Hidden Legacy: Social Hysteria and Structural Condonation of Incest, 55 Howard L.J. 319 (2012).  Here is the abstract: The history of slavery and its effects within the United States, especially the … Continue reading →

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Choudhury, “A Comparative Perspective on Polygamy in the United States and India”

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) has posted to SSRN  her article Between Tradition and Progress: A Comparative Perspective on Polygamy in the United States and India, 83 Colo. L. Rev. 101 (2012).  Here is the abstract: Both the United States and … Continue reading →

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Women and Inheritance Rights

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Christine Corcos

Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Academic Center of Law and Business, and Meital Pinto, Carmel Academic Center, Law School, University of Toronto, have published Property and Belongingness: Rethinking Gender-Biased Disinheritance, in volume 21 of the Texas Journal of Women and the Law (2012). … Continue reading →

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Hasday on “Siblings in Law”

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Jill Hasday (Minnesota) has posted to SSRN her article Siblings in Law, 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 897 (2012).  Here is the abstract: Legal regulation of the family focuses on two canonical relationships: marriage and parenthood.  Courts, legislatures, and scholars routinely take … Continue reading →

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Tait on “Historical Households, Earned Belonging, and Natural Connections”

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Allison Tait (Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate 2011-12, Yale Women Faculty Forum) has posted to SSRN her article “A Tale of Three Families: Historical Households, Earned Belonging, and Natural Connections,” 63 Hastings L. J. 1345  (2012).  Here is the … Continue reading →

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Manian on “Functional Parenting and Dysfunctional Abortion Policy”

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Maya Manian (U San Francisco) has a new article out discussing how to reform laws mandating parental involvement for adolescent girls seeking abortion care: “Functional Parenting and Dysfunctional Abortion Policy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation,” 50 Family Court Review 241 (2012).  … Continue reading →

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Alicia Kelly, “Navigating Gender in Modern Intimate Partnership Law”

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Alicia Kelly (Widener) has posted to SSRN her article Navigating Gender in Modern Intimate Partnership Law, 14 J. of Law & Family Studies (forthcoming 2012). Here is the abstract. With women edging up to become half the workforce, claims of … Continue reading →

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Expectant Mothers Who Hope for Boys, Not Girls

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the 5 Cities, 6 Women blog (here): [T]here’s a trend I’ve noticed lately that gets me as teary …. It’s this: when pregnant women – smart, funny, fierce women I respect – say they don’t want daughters. Some even take … Continue reading →

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Feminist Law Profs Interview with Sara McDougall

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

I recently spoke with Sara McDougall (History, John Jay College) about Professor McDougall’s book Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne (Penn Press 2012), previously blogged here, as well as Professor McDougall’s other work. Crawford Question: In the church … Continue reading →

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Kerry Abrams on “Marriage Fraud”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Kerry Abrams (UVa) recently talked with folks at her school about her work on Marriage Fraud, 100 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2012).  Here’s a portion of the interview: How did you become interested in writing about this topic? I study … Continue reading →

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Michigan State Symposium on “Modernizing Marriage through E-Marriage”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Check out some of the great pieces from the Michigan State Law Review Symposium on “Modernizing Marriage.” Kerry Abrams, Peaceful Penetration: Proxy Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Recognition, 2011 Mich. St. L. Rev. 141-172 This Essay is a contribution to a … Continue reading →

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Heen on “From Coverture to Contract: Engendering Insurance”

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Mary Heen (Richmond) has posted to SSRN her article From Coverture to Contract: Engendering Insurance, 23 Yale J. of Law & Feminism 335 (2011).  Here is the abstract: In the 1840s, state legislatures began modifying the law of marital status … Continue reading →

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Grief for the Children One Couldn’t or Didn’t Have

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Writer Charlotte Bacon describes her pilgrimage to a Bhutanese temple: [T]his was the place to release the grief that had come with the obstetric misery that dogged my late 30s. We had our son with ease when I was almost … Continue reading →

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Judge Orders Woman To Pay Alimony, Legal Fees, To Ex-Spouse Convicting Of Attacking Her

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Christine Corcos

A San Diego judge has told an ex-wife  to pay her ex-husband’s legal fees and be ready to pay him alimony should he make the request once he leaves prison. Judge Geoffrey Pollack noted that he had discretion in the … Continue reading →

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Women, the Super Committee, and Medicaid

Posted on November 18, 2011 by rrobson

Medicaid is a feminist issue, and the realistic prospect of severe medicaid funding cuts are a danger to women and girls. That’s the message of an excellent blog post  full of useful facts and figures by Davida Silverman, a staff … Continue reading →

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Is it Feminism “Fault” that Women are Single?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The November, 2011 edition of The Atlantic features a young, single writer and the headline “What Me, Marry?” with the subtitle, “In today’s economy, men are falling apart.  What that means for sex and marriage.”  That sounds like an interesting … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS Declines to Hear Same-Sex Adoption Case

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Reuters reports on the United States Supreme Court’s denial of cert today in Oren Adar v. Darlene Smith, No. 11-46: In a case closely watched by gay rights advocates, the high court rejected without comment an appeal by Oren Adar and … Continue reading →

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Poverty and Single Mothers

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Legal Momentum has released a new report, Single Mother Poverty in the United States in 2010.  Here is a summary: The large gender poverty gap that has persisted since poverty measurement began continued in 2010.  Adult women were twenty nine … Continue reading →

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Birckhead on “Delinquent by Reason of Indigency”

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Tamar Birckhead (UNC) has posted to SSRN a draft her essay Delinquent by Reason of Indigency, 38 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y __ (forthcoming 2012).  Here is the abstract: This Essay, written for the 12th Annual Access to Equal … Continue reading →

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Emens on Marriage and Naming Conventions: “A Simple Hyphen Will Do”

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this month, Elizabeth Emens (Columbia) published an op-ed “A Simple Hyphen Will Do” in the New York Times (here). Here is an excerpt: Will same-sex marriage help make straight marriage more equal? Here’s one concrete way it could. * … Continue reading →

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A Right to be a Parent? IVF in Israel

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Today’s New York Times has this interesting story on reproductive medicine in Israel.  In “Where Families Are Prized, Help Is Free,” Dina Kraft reports: Jewish and Arab, straight and gay, secular and religious, the patients who come to Assuta Hospital … Continue reading →

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Why Mothers (and Fathers) Need Childcare Options at Professional Meetings

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

I previously blogged here about the AALS decision to reinstate (temporarily) child care at the Annual Meeting.  That decision is in response to multiple requests, most recently (and notably) from the Work-Life Committee of the AALS Section on Women in … Continue reading →

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Joslin on “Modernizing Divorce Jurisdiction”

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Courtney Joslin (UC Davis) has posted to SSRN her article Modernizing Divorce Jurisdiction: Same-Sex Couples and Minimum Contacts, __ B.U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011).  Here is the abstract: There are tens of thousands of same-sex married couples in the … Continue reading →

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Ralph Richard Banks Asks “Is Marriage for White People?”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Ralph Richard Banks (Stanford) has a book coming out on September 1, 2011.  Here is a review from Kirkus of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone: In his debut (Law/Stanford Law School), Banks explores … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the Single Father? Skepticism Before Plaudits

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The local public radio station in New York reports here that the number of single fathers in New York City increased by 9% over the last decade.  For explanation of this statistic, the story relies in part on surveys and … Continue reading →

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Carbone on “Unpacking Inequality and Class : Family, Gender and the Reconstruction of Class Barriers”

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

June Carbone (UMKC) has published “Unpacking Inequality and Class : Family, Gender and the Reconstruction of Class Barriers,” 45 N. England L. Rev. 527 (2011).  This piece arises out of the Anna E. Hirsch Lecture that Professor Carbone delivered at New … Continue reading →

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AALS to Offer Childcare at 2012 Annual Meeting in D.C.

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

In response to a request from the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, the AALS will reinstate (temporarily?) childcare at the annual meeting.  AALS Managing Director Jane LaBarbera sent this message to AALS Section Chair Professor Danne Johnson: The … Continue reading →

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Second Shift Redux: New Study on Working Women’s Minimal Leisure Time

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Journal of Family Psychology wasn’t on my summer reading list until yesterday.  The LA Times reported (here) on a new Journal of Family Psychology study about the comparative leisure time of men and women in 2-career families with at … Continue reading →

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Thief Me (Or, Giving a Six for a Nine in Providing Public Education)

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Lolita Buckner Inniss

In Norwalk, Connecticut Tonya McDowell has been indicted for first-degree larceny. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. She is charged with stealing education: she allegedly enrolled her son in Norwalk schools from … Continue reading →

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Discount for Lesbian Moms

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Tony Infanti

A Brooklyn maternity store that is now giving a 10% discount to lesbian moms has prompted both criticism and now threats. In a one-week period, Paperno [the owner of the store] says she’s fielded five crazed callers — mostly homophobes … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the Work-Family Debate

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Margaret Chon

The Seattle Law Review just published a wonderful colloquy issue (here) centered around Joan Williams’s recent book, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.  Book-ended by an inspirational article by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a witty recap … Continue reading →

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Joslin on “Searching for Harm: Same-Sex Marriage and the Well-Being of Children”

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Courney Joslin (UC Davis) has posted to SSRN her article Searching for Harm: Same-Sex Marriage and the Well-Being of Children, 46 Harv. C.R.-C.L. Law Rev. 81 (2011).  Here is the abstract: For the past two decades, claims related to the … Continue reading →

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MIT Releases Third Study On Status Of Women Science and Engineering Faculty

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Christine Corcos

Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology releases a report examining the status of women faculty in science and engineering, the third such report since 1999. The upshot: There’s progress, but more needs to be done. The number of women faculty … Continue reading →

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A Woman’s Work at Home Doesn’t “Count” for Bankruptcy Purposes

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has ruled that a woman whose work is “only” at home — meaning caring for minor children and running the household — has no property right in one-half of a federal tax refund, at … Continue reading →

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