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reflections
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
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- 1995
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- spring
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- Radd, Victoria L.
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- juridische beroepen, rechtspraak, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Een aantal essays over de ervaringen van zes vrouwen die op een hoge positie werken bij het Ministerie van Justitie.
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
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- 1995
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- spring
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- Etienne, Margareth
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- mensenrechten, geweld, seksisme, internationaal recht
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- This article revisits the feasibility of establishing workable international standards for addressing the dehumanizing violence and discrimination that women suffer by virtue of their gender. It concludes that human rights activists and organizations seeking justice for women must not rely on contemporary international law, but must instead focus on local grassroots and watch group institutions that are intimately aware of the abuses faced by women.
images of beauty and defilement in judicial narratives of rape
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1995
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- spring
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- Binder, Lisa A.
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- verkrachtingen, vrouwbeelden, slachtoffers, daders
- Description
- What purposes do descriptions of rape victims as beautiful or attractive serve? What do such descriptions tell us about the victim, and about ourselves? One way to address these questions is to look to the construction of facts and narratives in rape cases and to the role of imagination in imbuing these narratives with moral meaning.
arguments for regulating pre-implantation sex selection
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- spring
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- Danis, Jodi
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- voortplantingstechnologie, sekse, gezondheidszorg, wetgeving, reproductieve rechten, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The author argues that the United States should enact federal legislation banning the use of pre-implantation sex selection technology by health care providers, and that such a ban would be consistent with established constitutional norms protecting reproductive rights.
domestic violence in the jewish community
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- spring
- Creator
- Horsburgh, Beverly
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- huiselijk geweld, jodendom
- Description
- The author examines the blatant and more subtle forms of intragroup oppression in Jewish culture that foster the mistreatment of women. The Jewish law (halakhah) and Jewish religious/social practices are discussed from a feminist perspective, indicating the many ways in which certain interpretations of the law reflect a belief in the inferior status of women and sustain an environment conducive to woman-abuse.
Japanese women betrayed by the equal employment opportunity law
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1995
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- spring
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- Knapp, Kiyoko Kamio
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- gelijke behandeling, wetgeving, arbeid, Japan
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- This article explores the most important source of legislative protection for equality in the Japanese workplace: the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL) enacted in 1985.
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- Harvard Women's Law Journal
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- 1995
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- spring
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- Dowd, Nancy E.
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- eenoudergezinnen, echtscheidingen, Verenigde Staten
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- In this article, Dowd concentrates on the ways that law both incorporates and creates stigma by looking at the legal structures surrounding divorce. The first section outlines what is known about single-parent families based on social science research. In the second section, the author discusses how the law incorporates and creates stigma in the structure of divorce.
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