Nicole Medham is a third year law student at Columbia Law School and has these thoughts about a recent 20/20 episode that caught her attention when the authors of Freakonomics were interviewed about the what and why of various implications of feminism:
Last Friday’s edition of ABC’s 20/20 featured the authors of the bestseller Freakonomics, Steven [...]
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Reform of divorce laws in light of the ways in which many women end up much worse off than their ex-husbands after divorce remains a huge problem for those of us concerned about Gender Justice.
But consider the current divorce case in the news of Marie Douglas-David, the 37 year-old woman who in 2002 married George [...]
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Grace Tabib is a third year student at Columbia Law School and offers these thoughts on the regulation of pornography – K. Franke
As in other areas of gender study, Catharine MacKinnon’s extreme view once again forecloses the possibility of women controlling their own sexual impulses. When MacKinnon argues that all pornography is abusive to women, [...]
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