Women & politicsPub Date : 2008-10-26DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.1990.9970580
Barbara C. Burrell
{"title":"The Presence of Women Candidates and the Role of Gender in Campaigns for the State Legislature in an Urban Setting","authors":"Barbara C. Burrell","doi":"10.1080/1554477X.1990.9970580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.1990.9970580","url":null,"abstract":"Studies in several relatively small-population and rural states in the 1970s show few differences in the types of state legislative races in which men and women are nominated and how well they do at the ballot box. This study extends our knowledge of the role of gender in state legislative campaigns, geographically and over time by exploring the comparative electoral experience of male and female candidates for state legislative office in a more urban setting in the 1980s. It expands the range of subject matter by considering women candidates' presence, primary campaign experiences, and fundraising. The data show that few women have run for office in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1980s, but those who have run have done so strategically and with a comparable rate of success with male candidates. A gender gap does exist in campaign contributions to male candidates' advantage, but this has not kept women candidates from achieving equality at the ballot box.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59911715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Should Differences Make a Difference","authors":"S. Mezey","doi":"10.1300/J014V10N02_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V10N02_08","url":null,"abstract":"This study criticizes the Supreme Court's current approach to constitutional gender equality and suggests a new type of review for gender-based classifications under the equal protection clause. The debate over acceptable gender classification hsa forced the Court to decide whether distinctions on the basis of gender-specific physical characteristics discriminate on the bsais of gender, whether legislation on the basis of generalized physical characteristics is discriminatory when applied to individuals who deviate from the average, whether states reinforce sex role stereotypes when legislating on the basis of gender-specific physical characteristics, and whether legislation that purports to benefit women actually serves to further inequality. In wrestling with this issues, especially the last, the Court has also been forced to explain both logically and legally why racial classifications are different from gender classifications The purpose of this study is twofold: the first objective is to argue that t...","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V10N02_08","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66676721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Three-Fifths to Zero:","authors":"Mamie E. Locke","doi":"10.1300/J014V10N02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V10N02_04","url":null,"abstract":"In 1987 the United States began celebrations marking the bicentennial of the Constitution. As these celebrations occur, it is important to discuss some of the implications of that document for African-American women. This paper examines the struggle for \"wholeness\" of the African-American woman, who evolved initially sa three-fifths of a person in 1787 and moved to zero with the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. Despite their hard-fought, sometimes subtle, battles against racism and sexism, the Fifteenth Amendment underscored their omission and their marginal status under the supreme law of the land-the Constitution.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V10N02_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66676528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rape Law Reform","authors":"Ma Judith A. Osborne Llb","doi":"10.1300/J014v04n03_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014v04n03_06","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a review of the changes that have occured in Canadian rape law since 1975 and of their impact on an implications for Canadian women. These modifications relate to evidence, procedure and substance. The requirement of corroboration has been repealed; new guidelines have been issued for questioning the complaintant about her sexual history; and rape has been redefined as sexual assault of cvarying degrees. This paper argues that experience since 1975 with these matters and with the related issue of the victim's consent has been disappointing: bad drafting and judicial frustration of legislative intent have impeded any meaningful change.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014v04n03_06","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66672802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Re-Reading The Second Sex:","authors":"Sondra Farganis","doi":"10.1300/J014V11N01_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V11N01_05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V11N01_05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66676678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abortion and Undue Burdens","authors":"P. Sullivan, Steven R. Goldzwig","doi":"10.1300/J014V16N03_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V16N03_02","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that Sandra Day O'Connor's moral reasoning concerning abortion cases represents a female-associated jurisprudence. A female-associated jurisprudence negotiates a moral ground that values the rights of individuals as interdependent members of communities. From the recognition of the need to balance such interests emerges a jurisprudence that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all parties and all competing interests in a dispute.. In articulating \"undue burden\" standard for evaluating abortion cases, Justice O'Connor has identified an approach to legal decision-making that accomodates difference, contextualizes the law, and resists oversimplification of complex issues.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V16N03_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66679515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in Developing Countries","authors":"Parvin Ghorayshi","doi":"10.1300/J014V16N03_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V16N03_04","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I draw from my fieldwork in Iran and raise questions regarding our methods of data collection and theoretical concepts in studying women in developing countries. First, I outline the shortcomings of quantitative methods of social science inquiry. Second, drawing from the experience of women in Iran, I join the feminist literature, particularly Third World feminism, on diversity and difference and oppose the homogenization of Third World women. This article uses an alternative approach which not only goes beyond the traditional social science methodology, but also beyond the pitfalls of simple feminist essentialism.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V16N03_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66679520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Representation on State Grand Juries","authors":"W. Macauley, A. Rowland, C. Rowland","doi":"10.1300/J014V02N03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V02N03_03","url":null,"abstract":"The Supreme Court has acted to eliminate discrimination against women on state petit juries and blacks on state grand juries. The next step is a Court decision eliminating sex discrimination on state grand juries. The Court could achieve this by applying the standard used to measure unacceptable race discrimination to sex discrimination. That standard assumes racial discrimination if there is an opportunity to discriminate and systematic disproportion of racial representation. This article discusses how the standard works, and then focuses on a study of the comissioner system in two Texas grand jury jurisdictions (Dallas and Houston) to illustrate its potential application to female exclusion.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V02N03_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66671085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the End of the Line","authors":"R. Blumberg, Cara Hinderstein","doi":"10.1300/J014v02n04_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014v02n04_04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014v02n04_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66671432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Abortion Funding Policy Arguments","authors":"L. Goldstein","doi":"10.1300/J014V05N02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V05N02_03","url":null,"abstract":"Taking off from the assumption that the 1982 elections may have signaled a new fluidity in public opinion concerning abortion funding for the poor at state level, this essay critically examines the ethical arguments of the pro-choice and anit-abortion camps with particular attention to the facts of fetal development. Its purpose is to suggest new directions for a policy compromise at the state legislative level and perhaps even at the congressional level.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V05N02_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66673839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}