Columbia Journal of Gender and Law articles from January 2006

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law archives from January 2006

The failure of abstinence-only education: minors have a right to honest talk about sex.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... The federal government spends over $170 million annually to subsidize states and community organizations that provide abstinence-only sex education (1) to America's youth. (2) This type of sex education (3) is limited to teaching that a...

Some ABCs of feminist sex education (in light of the sexuality critique of Legal feminism).(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... This Essay has two aims. First, it offers some guiding principles, or "ABCs," for a feminist vision of sex education. Second, in keeping with this symposium's topic, "Sexuality and the Law," the Essay evaluates that feminist project in light of...

Clothes don't make the man (or woman), but gender identity might.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Jespersen v. Harrah's Operating Co., Inc. (1) reflects the blinders on many contemporary courts regarding the impact of sex-differentiated dress requirements on female employees. (2) Although some courts...

Legal cross-dressing: sexuality and the Americans with Disabilities Act.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... "To retain respect for sausages and laws one should not see them in the making." (1) The United States government wants its citizens to know that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") (2) is about more than eliminating...

Sexual punishments.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... The claim that incarceration is a sexual punishment--the central claim of this Article--may be disputed with respect to both the adjective and the noun. The challenge to the choice of noun is this: any sex, including sexual assaults, that may...

Rethinking prison sex: self-expression and safety.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... At the risk of buying into popular stereotypes about sex behind bars and the archetypes of the dyke prison matron providing better treatment to women in prison in exchange for sex, (1) or torrid sex between women in prison, (2) or the burly...

The politics of same-sex marriage politics.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... In this Essay I would like to share some reflections on the politics of same-sex marriage politics. In a very short period of time, this issue has moved to the center of the gay and lesbian rights movement as well as larger mainstream political...

A historical guide to the future of marriage for same-sex couples.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... History and tradition have emerged, together, as contemporary flagship arguments for limiting marriage to different-sex couples. (1) According to advocates of "traditional marriage," same-sex couples can be excluded from marriage today because...

The new politics of adultery.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... Adultery is nothing new. Nor are social sanctions against it. But there is something new in the contemporary cultural politics of adultery, which begins with an ever-expanding definition of infidelity. Once restricted to "natural heterosexual...

Sex as a form of gender and expression after Lawrence v. Texas.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... The Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas (1) has been touted in many circles as a significant gay rights opinion, (2) but it is much more than that. While it is certainly the first decision of the Court to recognize a constitutionally...

Pathology full circle: a history of anti-vibrator legislation in the United States.(Sexuality and the Law)
January 1, 2006... In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines traces the electromechanical vibrator back to its inception in the late 1800s, when it was employed solely by medical professionals who sought to relieve symptoms of hysteria and various other ailments...