| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Feminist judgment series |
| Contents |
Part I. Using RJ to Rewrite Justice ; The Art of Storytelling ; Feminists, Feminist Theory, and Race ; The Clash of Rights and Justice ; Intertwining Identities and Movements / Kimberly M. Mutcherson -- Part II. The Feminist Judgments. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) / commentary: Jasmine E. Harris, judgment: Jusitce Kim hai Pearson -- Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942) / commentary: Radhika Rao, judgment: Justice Thomas Williams -- Wyman v. James, 400 U.S. 309 (1971) / commentary: Michele Gilman, judgment: Justice Priscilla Ocen -- Maher v. Roe, 432 US 464 (1977) / commentary: Ederlina Co, judgment: Justice Michele Goodwin -- In Re Madyun, 114 Daily Wash. Law. Rptr. 2233 (D.C. Super Ct. 1986) / commentary: Farah Diaz-Tello, judgment: Associate Judge Maya Manian -- Johnson v. Calvert, 5 Cal. 4th 84 (1993) / commentary: Catherine Sakimura, judgement: Justice Melanie Jacobs -- Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2000) / commentary: Lisa Crooms-Robinson, judgment: Justice Margo Kaplan -- State v. Oakley, 629 N.W.2nd 200 (Wis. 2001) / commentary: Aziza Ahmed, judgment: Justice Solangel Maldonado -- Sojourner A. v. N.J. Dept. of Human Servs., 177 N.J. 318 (2003) / commentary: Ann Cammett, judgment: Chief Justice Cynthia Soohoo -- K.M. v. E.G., 37 Cal. 4th 130 (2005) / commentary: Nancy Polikoff, judgment: Justice Melissa Murray -- Reber v. Reiss, 42 A.3d 1131 (2012) / commentary: Kevin Maillard, judgment: Judge Dara Purvis -- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 570 U.S. 637 (2013) / commentary: Rose Cuison Villazor, judgment: Justice Nancy Dowd -- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014) / commentary: Suzanne A. Kim, judgment: Justice Anthony Michael Kreis -- Young v. UPS, 135 S. Ct. 1338 (2015) / commentary: Mary Ziegler, judgment: Justifce Meredith Harbach -- Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016) / commentary: Myrisha Lewis, judgment: Justice David Cohen |
| Summary |
"American history is replete with examples of some people controlling reproduction to assert power and domination over others. During chattel slavery in the United States, slaveowners denied Black women and men the most basic forms of dignity--subjecting enslaved Black women to sexual abuse and rape at the whim of people who believed that they could own human beings as property. When pregnancies resulted from rape by slave owners or consensual relationships among slaves, enslaved women frequently watched their children taken from them and sold for profit. Control of fertility and parenting decisions too often meant self-induced abortion or infanticide because other tools were out of reach. Post-emancipation and well into the present day, the experiences of Black women and other women of color, as well as poor women and women living with disabilities, were a reminder that procreation remains a space of power and constraint. The eugenics movement in the United States led to thousands of unconsented sterilization procedures largely on women. Today, parents seek to consent to sterilization on behalf of their adult children living with disabilities. The myth of the welfare queen, always depicted as a poor Black woman with too many children, allowed states to create welfare caps that harm poor children by withholding needed financial resources from their families. States treat pregnant women and new mothers who are living with substance use disorder as criminals who need punishment, rather than sufferers who need a public health response. The federal government makes access to safe and legal abortion more difficult for poor women who are forbidden in almost all instances from using federal Medicaid dollars to pay for pregnancy terminations. It is fitting, then, that this entry into the Feminist Judgments canon focuses on procreation and parenting as sites of oppression and discrimination"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
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Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
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Parent and child (Law) -- United States -- Cases
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Feminist jurisprudence -- United States
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Parent and child (Law)
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Human reproduction -- Law and legislation
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Abortion -- Law and legislation
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Feminist jurisprudence
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mutcherson, Kimberly M., 1972- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019042486 |
| ISBN |
9781108348409 |
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1108348408 |
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9781108698955 |
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1108698956 |
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