Discrimination and Inequality (1998)

Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop - Discrimination and Inequality

Columbia University Law School - November 6th & 7th, 1998

Jerome Green Lounge at Wien Hall

Sponsored by Professor Martha Fineman

I. Defining the Tasks - FRIDAY 4:00PM - 6:30 PM

Nancy S. Ehrenreich, University of Denver, College of Law

"Beyond Intersectionality"

Bryan K. Fair, University of Alabama, School of Law

"The Anatomy of Caste in the United States"

June Carbone, Santa Clara University School of Law

"'Technological Shock', Inequality and Family"

Clark Freshman, University of Miami School of Law

"Whatever Happened to 'Anti-Semitism'? Generalized Discrimination, Proof of Discrimination, and Social Science"

7:00 PM Dinner at Professor Fineman's home: 15 Claremont Ave. # 91

II. Law and the Construction of Identity - SATURDAY 10:00 AM - NOON

Tracey E. Higgins, Fordham Law School

"Gender, Liberalism, and the Promise of Equal Citizenship"

Kif Augustine-Adams, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School

"Marriage as Exile: Citizenship Rules and Women's Exclusion"

Jane Cohen, Boston University School of Law

"Identity- Some Questions about Politics and Law"

Commentator: Joan Meier, George Washington University Law School

Lunch 12:15-1:45pm

Joan Meier's recently published article entitled Domestic Violence, Character, And Social

Change In The Welfare Reform Debate is included in these materials. Discussion of this

article will occur during lunch for those who are interested.

III. The Intersection of Race and Class - SATURDAY 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of Toledo, College of Law

"Telling Women Stories through a Feminist Method of Process"

April L. Cherry, Florida State University, College of Law

"Legal and Cultural Attitudes Toward Black Motherhood: Nurturing in the Service of White Culture"

Marnie Mahoney, University of Miami, School of Law

"Class and Whiteness in Work and Law"

Commentator: Cheryl Preston, Brigham Young University Law School