Journal of Gender, Race and Justice articles from January 2008

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice archives from January 2008

Localizing the "welfare queen" ten years later: race, gender, place, and welfare rights.
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Mysheda Autry sits on a linoleum floor, watching her three children play with toys from a nearby milk crate. She is pregnant. This photo, featured in The New York Times, marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. (1)...

Welfare reform in a global economy.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Just over ten years ago, Congress and the Clinton administration passed perhaps the most significant piece of domestic social legislation since the New Deal. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation...

Reframing asylum standards for mutilated women.
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION In the fall of 2006, international attention centered on an Ethiopian immigrant on trial in the United States. (1) Khalid Adem was tried and sentenced for a unique charge: female genital mutilation. (2) Adem, accused of...

Much ado about nothing: the significance of Benitez v. North Coast.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Infertility currently affects more than six million Americans, and about twenty percent of these people seek the aid of physicians specializing in assisted reproductive technology. (1) Many of the women who consult with a...

How the scope of states' citizen's arrest statutes affects the activity level of vigilante groups on the U.S.-Mexico border.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Vigilante movements are frequently characterized as a group of persons who defend their viewpoints, often through the use of force, against those who oppose their views. (1) These views generally relate to "the defence...

The beginning of the end: the diminished abortion right following Carhart and Planned Parenthood.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION 11/24/2011--Death Toll Mounts in Post-Roe II World (1) Chicago, Illinois (AP)--An estimated 10,000 women have died from illegal abortions since January 1, 2009, when states began prohibiting abortions. Today, on...

Striking a balance between faith and freedom: military conscientious objection as a model for pharmacist refusal.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (1) Conservative religious activists who...