Patricia Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara, has published Married Women and Induced Abortion in the United States, 1820-1860. Here is the abstract. Results of a study of 225 publicized abortion cases in US...
Richard Kielbowicz, University of Washington, is publishing Women as Common Scolds in Law and Popular Culture: Pennsylvania, 1824-1972 in Gender & History. Here is the abstract. Women faced prosecution as common scolds for their...
Donovan Stone, Duke Law School, is publishing Constance Baker Motley’s Forgotten Housing Legacy in the 2021 volume of the Utah Law Review. Here is the abstract. Constance Baker Motley led the legal assault on...
From Pop Culture Detective: A video essay on “Stalking For Love.”
Forthcoming: Laura F. Edwards, Only the Clothes On Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press, 2022). Here from the publisher’s website is a description...
Danish Sheikh, Melbourne Law School, is publishing Legal Theatre: Staging Critique in the Law School in volume 46 of the Australian Feminist Law Journal (2020). Here is the abstract. This essay describes the conduct...
Tracy A. Thomas, University of Akron School of Law, has published Reclaiming the Long History of the “Irrelevant” Nineteenth Amendment for Gender Equality at 105 Minnesota Law Review 101 (2021). Here is the abstract....
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