Erasing Women's Experiences from the Clinic to the Courtroom
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Waldman, Ellen
- Creator
- Herald, Marybeth
- Thesaurus
- wetenschapstheorie, seksisme, stereotypering, medische wetenschappen, rechtstheorie, beroepen in de gezondheidszorg en hulpverlening, juridische beroepen, seksualiteit, ouderschap
- Description
- The authors explore how cognitive biases and distortions taint medical and legal understandings of women, and how these constricted understandings form the foundations of legal doctrines unresponsive to women’s experiences. In examining the interplay between medical and social science data and legal dogma, they argue how bodies of knowledge are selectively pursued, exploited, or ignored in the service of biased assumptions that achieve expression in legal responses to emerging social dilemmas. Selective information flow between the medical and legal professions results in untoward consequences in a variety of settings, but the authors limit their focus to female sexuality and psychological parenthood.