I went to Cowboys yesterday. Seriously.

Tonight I'm going to a party, and I'm not wearing pants.

Tomorrow at 6pm Mountain Standard Time, I will be on CJSW debating abortion. You can listen here.

It's been ages since I wrote anything here. I have a paper that was due almost a year ago. At this point the utility of writing it is questionable, but it's been hanging over my head for so long that finishing it would be a relief on par with a stay of execution. Besides, the topic is Equality and I have almost total leeway to write what I want ( Read more... )

IV. LEGAL ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE DURING PREGNANCY

From Maternal Antagonists to Paternal AntagonistsA new image has come to haunt the cultural landscape: the murdered pre-born child. This image is a new permutation of the image of the innocent, vulnerable fetus, threatened by hostile elements that has been at the heart of ( Read more... )

III. VIOLENCE DURING PREGNANCY: ITS PREVALENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR MATERNAL HEALTHOne of the major sources of maternal and fetal ill-health is intimate partner (usually male) violence. Recent Canadian data puts the rate of women being battered by male partners as occurring in 10 to 20 percent of spousal relationships. Intimate partners ( Read more... )

II. FETAL RIGHTS DISCOURSE

The Costs of Fetal RightsConflicts over fetal rights can only be understood in the broader context of reproductive politics and women’s equality. Controlling reproduction has been a method of state sanctioned subordination of women. The fact that women may become pregnant is tacitly understood as grounds to ( Read more... )

I. INTRODUCTION: FETAL RIGHTS, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & WOMEN’S EQUALITY This paper examines the relationship between violence against women and attempts to curtail women’s reproductive autonomy by foregrounding the fetus and its “rights,” both as social and legal phenomena. These two seemingly disparate areas are connected in myriad ways, ( Read more... )

From S. M. Waddums, The Law of Contracts.

4. Open Terms and Incomplete AgreementsThe determination of contract formation is not a mechanical process of applying rules but a complex and flexible procedure depending on many factors. Another illustration is supplied by the case of agreements with "open" terms. The common case is that parties ( Read more... )

From Catherine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (Preface ( Read more... )