Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Gender and Sexuality

Louise Melling

The New Faith-Based Discrimination

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

Sonali Chakravarti

Jurors Can Protect Abortion Access

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

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Why Does the State Care About Your Gender?

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

Mary Bernstein

Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?

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

Emma Lower, Mary Kathryn Nagle

What Will It Take to End Violence Against Native Women?

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.

Joseph J. Fischel

Is There a Constitutional Right to Sex Work?

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.

Christine Henneberg

Why I Provide Abortions

My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”

Becca Rothfeld

Pleasure and Justice

Three new books explore the gap between sex that is good and sex that is virtuous, making the complexities of desire central to our conversations about sexual ethics.

Abby Minor

Beyond Choice

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

Judith Levine

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

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

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