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Policy Reflections
on Our Wounded
Identities in Law
Holy Trouble To Make a Dragon Move To Rescue or Research Pornography: Subjectivity and Gender-Identity in Cyberspace GWU Resources |
Chained Women: When Israel was conceived as a Jewish state, questions arose over the division between the religious and the secular. Judaism is grounded in halakha, a detailed set of laws which guides observant Jews, but debate continues over whether Israel should adopt these religious laws to govern a largely secular population. Contradictions exist between the ancient laws and modern ideals, especially regarding women’s rights. (full article)
Reflections
on Our Wounded
Identities in Law Inspired strongly by Nietzsche’s thesis of the thwarted will to power and ressentiment, Wendy Brown claims in her book, States of Injury, that a variety of feminist projects, despite their good intention, reflect and reinforce inadvertently the sexualized and masculinist character of the states, politics, and cultures. The inscription of the gendered identities in legal and political discourses reaffirms the historical injuries constitutive of those identities. Influenced by postmodern feminism...(full article) Sexual
Orientation Discrimination in Private Employment Sexual orientation discrimination in employment is a newly emerging field of state law. In 1979, the United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) considered whether sexual orientation bias came within the purview of the 1964 law passed by Congress prohibiting sex discrimination. The Court held that “Title VII’s prohibition of ‘sex’ discrimination applies only to discrimination on the basis of gender and should not be judicially extended to include sexual preference such as homosexuality” or transsexualism. (full article)
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