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Feminism
438 published works
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Introducing the Australian Feminist Legislation Project
By Tracy Thomas
Heli Askola, Kate Seear, Jamie Walvisch, Becky Batagol, Introducing the Australian Feminist Legislation Project This introductory chapter outlines the development, aims, methods, theory and structure of the Australian Feminist Legislation Project…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication
By Tracy Thomas
Highly recommend.Rachel Bayefsky, Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication In recent years, "tradition" has been influentially invoked in constitutional rights adjudication and legal scholarship. The Supreme Court, in contexts ranging…
Legal Theory Blog
Bayefsky on Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication
Rachel Bayefsky (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent years, "tradition" has been influentially…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book, Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
By Tracy Thomas
Emily Callaci, Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor (Seal Press 2025)Women do more than three-quarters of all the world’s unpaid care work, contributing over $9 trillion to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Yvette Butler on “Silencing the Sex Worker”
By Jamie Abrams
Yvette Butler has published "Silencing the Sex Worker" in Volume 71 of the UCLA Law Review. The abstract is excerpted here. This Article argues that sex workers are silenced when they…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book, The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement
By Tracy Thomas
NYT, Book Review, Book Review, The Bluestockings, When Women's Wits Ruled London's Salons*** Both Woolf and Wollstonecraft argued far more stridently for women’s rights than did Macaulay or her peers,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and Competition Law: An Exploration of Feminist Perspectives
By Jamie Abrams
Giorgio Monti has posted on SSRN "Gender and Competition Law: An Exploration of Feminist Perspectives." Excerpts of the introduction are presented below: This essay is motivated by the outcomes of an…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Revisiting the Legacy of a Feminist Icon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah Brake, Gender and the Law: Revisiting the Legacy of a Feminist Icon, Ch. 1 in THE JURISPRUDENTIAL LEGACY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Ryan Vacca & Ann Bartow, eds.,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Is International Criminal Law Feminist?
By Tracy Thomas
Margaret M. Deguzman & Rachel Lopez, Is International Criminal Law Feminist?, Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law (forthcoming) The future of international criminal law as a feminist project at its…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Review, Kerri Stone’s, Panes of the Glass Ceiling
By Tracy Thomas
Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Feminist Legal Theory and Stone's Panes of the Glass Ceiling, 17 FIU L. Rev. 771 (2023). In her book, Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs…