Equal protection of the law? : gender and justice in the United States / Mary Welek Atwell.
2002
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Author
Title
Equal protection of the law? : gender and justice in the United States / Mary Welek Atwell.
Published
New York : P. Lang, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
KF478 .A98 2002
ISBN
0820455024 (alk. paper)
Description
vi, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49602344
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-216).
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
Ch. 1
Definitions, Examples, and Analytical Tools
3
Sex/Gender
3
Patriarchy
3
Feminism
5
Analytical Tools
5
Two Court Cases as Examples
8
Ch. 2
Citizenship, Constitutional Rights, and Equality: Elusive Goals
13
Early American Institutions
14
Women Challenge the Law of Domestic Relations
16
Constitutional Challenges
19
Ch. 3
Participating in the Criminal Justice System
35
Law Enforcement and Corrections
36
The Practice of Law
45
Jury Service
51
Ch. 4
Women and Girls as Victims
55
Living in a Climate of Violence
55
Rape
59
Woman Battering/Domestic Violence
65
Criminal Justice Responses
75
Stalking
82
Sexual Harassment
84
The VAWA Perspective
88
Ch. 5
Victims and Offenders: Gender as the Link
89
Victims and Offenders: Delinquent Girls
96
Victims Who Become Offenders: Battered Women Who Kill
98
Prostitution: The Vicious Cycle
100
Ch. 6
Punishing Women: The Experience of Female Offenders
105
The Numbers
105
Behind the Numbers
106
Casualties in the War on Drugs
108
Establishing Prisons for Women
110
Prison Life
113
Women on Death Row
124
Ch. 7
Regulating Reproduction
129
Historical Background
131
Controlling the Unfit
134
Privacy and Reproductive Rights
135
Criminalizing Pregnant Women
139
Ch. 8
Concluding Thoughts
145
Notes
151
App. 1
The Seneca Falls Declaration
171
App. 2
Bradwell v. Illinois
175
App. 3
Muller v. Oregon
177
App. 4
Thompson v. Thompson
179
App. 5
Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia
181
App. 6
Hoyt v. Florida
183
App. 7
Frontiero v. Richardson
185
App. 8
United States v. Virginia
187
App. 9
Dothard v. Rawlinson
189
App. 10
Buck v. Bell
193
App. 11
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
195
App. 12
Film and Fiction
199
Bibliography
203