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Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Gender and Sexuality

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Louise Melling

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Sonali Chakravarti

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

Mary Bernstein
The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is an important step, but activist Mary Kathryn Nagle argues that only full restoration of Indigenous sovereignty will stop the epidemic.
Emma Lower, Mary Kathryn Nagle
The Supreme Court recognizes the right of consenting adults to an erotic life free of state control. Given that, it shouldn't matter whether sex is your job.
Joseph J. Fischel
My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”
Christine Henneberg

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

Becca Rothfeld
Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.
Abby Minor

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

Judith Levine

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