Columbia Journal of Gender and Law articles from June 2005

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law archives from June 2005

From our family to yours: rethinking the "beneficial family" and marriage-centric corporate benefit programs.
June 22, 2005... In his Father Knows Best world, Jim Anderson was accustomed to clarity. Each week the show conveyed the message that the Andersons had found the most beneficial social formation in which to live: one comprised of a breadwinner father and...

Rupture, leakage, and reconstruction: the body as a site for the enforcement and reproduction of sex-based legal norms in the breast implant controversy.
June 22, 2005... I wanted desperately... to be... a girl, a definite indisputable girl. And nothing would do that for me, I felt, but breasts. (1) "He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him?" "No," said the officer.... "He'll learn it...

To love the babe that milks me: infanticide and reconceiving the mother.
June 22, 2005... "We must integrate into our in-itself-for-itself the given of an original relationship with our mother... in which, at one time, we received life rather than death from the other." (1) "[I]n light of the extended period of time little...

Not in our country? A critique of the United States welfare system through the lens of China's one-child law.
June 22, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION The United States has not shied away from speaking out about human right abuses that take place across the globe. (1) However, in assuming the role of human rights crusader globally, the United States has neglected human...