Equal protection of the law? : gender and justice in the United States /
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| Author / Creator: | Atwell, Mary Welek, 1943- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Peter Lang, c2002. |
| Description: | vi, 216 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in crime & punishment ; v. 1 Studies in crime and punishment ; v. 1. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4735041 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Definitions, Examples, and Analytical Tools
- Sex/Gender
- Patriarchy
- Feminism
- Analytical Tools
- Two Court Cases as Examples
- Chapter 2. Citizenship, Constitutional Rights, and Equality: Elusive Goals
- Early American Institutions
- Women Challenge the Law of Domestic Relations
- Constitutional Challenges
- Chapter 3. Participating in the Criminal Justice System
- Law Enforcement and Corrections
- The Practice of Law
- Jury Service
- Chapter 4. Women and Girls as Victims
- Living in a Climate of Violence
- Rape
- Woman Battering/Domestic Violence
- Criminal Justice Responses
- Stalking
- Sexual Harassment
- The VAWA Perspective
- Chapter 5. Victims and Offenders: Gender as the Link
- Victims and Offenders: Delinquent Girls
- Victims Who Become Offenders: Battered Women Who Kill
- Prostitution: The Vicious Cycle
- Chapter 6. Punishing Women: The Experience of Female Offenders
- The Numbers
- Behind the Numbers
- Casualties in the War on Drugs
- Establishing Prisons for Women
- Prison Life
- Women on Death Row
- Chapter 7. Regulating Reproduction
- Historical Background
- Controlling the Unfit
- Privacy and Reproductive Rights
- Criminalizing Pregnant Women
- Chapter 8. Concluding Thoughts
- Notes
- Appendices
- Appendix 1. The Seneca Falls Declaration
- Appendix 2. Bradwell v. Illinois
- Appendix 3. Muller v. Oregon
- Appendix 4. Thompson v. Thompson
- Appendix 5. Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia
- Appendix 6. Hoyt v. Florida
- Appendix 7. Frontiero v. Richardson
- Appendix 8. United States v. Virginia
- Appendix 9. Dothard v. Rawlinson
- Appendix 10. Buck v. Bell
- Appendix 11. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
- Appendix 12. Film and Fiction
- Bibliography
