Symposium Abstract

Taunya Lovell Banks, in "Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate" describes differing conceptions of ‘domestic work’ different types of domestic workers, and legislatives debates proffering or inhibiting solutions to domestic work problems. Isabelle R. Gunning, in "Global Feminism at the Local Level: Criminal and Asylum Laws Regarding Female Genital Surgeries" analyzes American laws that involve female genital surgeries and a landmark case involving protection for females from genital surgeries. "The LatIndia and Mestizajes: Of Cultures, Conquests, and LatCritical Feminism," by Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol, uses Critical Race Theory to explore the flaws in legal analysis with respect to the female Latin Culture, and delves into cultural and societal analyses.

Pamela J. Smith contributes an article in two parts of "Romantic Paternalism – The Ties that Bind are Also Free." Part I, "Revealing the Contours of Judicial Affinity for White Women" describes how the law has been both a restriction and the key to emancipation for white women and has largely been a mechanism to protect White women and keep them as domestic figures. Part II, "Hierarchies of Economic Oppression that Reveal Judicial Disaffinity for Black Women and Men" contrasts the limitations placed on African American women to those placed on White women and studies the place of the African American male as both a male and a minority. "Transcending Traditional Notions of Mothering: The Need for Critical Race Feminist Praxis," by Adrien Katherine Wing and Laura Weselmann, calls for a redefining of mothering and motherhood in order to foster a nonracist society. Erica R. Clinton contributed the Student Note "Chains for Marriage: Israeli Women’s Fight for Freedom" along with "Child’s Play or Sex Discrimination?: School Liability for Peer Sexual Harassment Under Title IX" and "Blind Justice: Excluding Relevant m Mitigating Evidence During Capital Sentencing" by Meredith Rich-Chappell and Lynn Thompson Reid, respectively.

Symposium Articles

Taunya Lovell Banks, "Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate"

Isabelle R. Gunning, "Global Feminism at the Local Level: Criminal and Asylum Laws Regarding Female Genital Surgeries"

Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol, "The LatIndia and Mestizajes: Of Cultures, Consequests, and LatCritical Feminism"

Pamela J. Smith, "Part I- Romantic Paternalism- The Ties That Bind Also Free: Revealing the Contours of Judicial Affinity for White Women"

Pamela J. Smith, "Part II- Romantic Paternalism- The Ties That Bind: Hierarchies of Economic Oppression That Reveal Judicial Disaffinity for Black Women and Men"

Adrien Katherine Wing and Laura Weselmann, "Transcending Traditional Notions of Mothering: The Need for Critical Race Feminist Praxis"

Penelope E. Andrews, "Globalization, Human Rights and Critical Race Feminism: Voices from the Margins"

Pamela D. Bridgewater, "Reproductive Freedom as Civil Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment's Role in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights"

Devon W. Carbado, "Men in Black"

Margaret Chon, "Erasing Race?: A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity-Shifting"

Joan W. Howarth, "Women Defenders on Television: Representing Suspects and the Racial Politics of Retribution"

Lisa C. Ikemoto, Male Fraud

Emma Coleman Jordan, "Crossing the River of Blood Between Us: Lynching, Violence, Beauty, and the Paradox of Feminist History"

E. Michelle Rabouin, "'Gifting Children of Promise': Re-Imagining the Academic Margins as Transformative Legal Space"

Marilyn Yarbrough with Crystal Bennett, "Cassandra and the 'Sistahs': The Peculiar Treatment of African American Women in the Myth of Women as Liars"