Operations of legal rhetoric: examining transsexual and judicial identity
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Judicial opinions in which judges consider the identity claims of transsexuals give insight into the complex operations of decision-making on gender and identity issues. In their efforts to maintain their gender ideology, judges use the same 'repudiating' strategies as transsexuals do in attempting to maintain a coherent gender identity. The legal rhetoric on the challenges provided by transsexuals may create opportunities for judges and others to recognize challenges to their methods and ideology.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1999
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It is lawyers we are funding: a constitutional challenge to the 1996 restrictions on the Legal Services Corporation
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Restrictions on uses of Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funds enacted by Congress in 1996 are contrary to 1st Amendment and equal protection principles. The restrictions on patently political activities and litigations were intentionally instituted to eliminate politically disfavored actions and dangerous ideas according to the biases of the legislating Congress. Congress does not have to fund the LSC, but as long as it does, it should do so consistently with constitutional provisions.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1998
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On being a gorilla in your midst, or, the life of one blackwoman in the legal academy
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Female African American law professors face feeling disconnected and must continually combat notions that they are not truly qualified for their positions at law schools. A law professor at Case Western Reserve University law school recounts how receiving an anonymous picture of a gorilla in her faculty office symbolized her struggle and that of other female African American law professors as they try to fit into the law school culture.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1993
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