against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 11 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART XI: CONCLUSIONS To the extent that issues of gender are a biopsychosocial phenomenon, this becomes even more important. It is important that men and women know and understand how to relate to one another. There will always be individual variation … Continue reading Against the Conscription of Women: Conclusions
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Family Law and Public Policy
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 10 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART X: FAMILY LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY In order to pull this discussion together to its logical conclusion, it is necessary to also speak further about family law, and the important role that sex, sexuality, and gender play within it. Biological … Continue reading Family Law and Public Policy
History, Social Movements, and Interpretation
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 9 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART IX: HISTORY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND INTERPRETATION Of course, what does any of this even matter anymore? This issue of acknowledging that the sexes are indeed fundamentally different seems much equivalent with the preceding generation’s preoccupation with women’s historical workforce participation. … Continue reading History, Social Movements, and Interpretation
Biological Difference
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 8 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART VIII: BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE Modern science increasingly understands how different men and women truly are. In the past couple of decades, the literature on the subject of biology and sex differences has become so vast that the National Institutes of Health … Continue reading Biological Difference
Wifely Subjection, Protection, Support, and the Symbolism of Laws
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 7 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART VII: WIFELY SUBJECTION, PROTECTION, SUPPORT, AND THE SYMBOLISM OF LAWS As for a man’s physical power or control over his lawful wife, there is no evidence that a man had the right to abuse- physically or otherwise- his wife nor treat her … Continue reading Wifely Subjection, Protection, Support, and the Symbolism of Laws
The Feme Covert
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 6 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART VI: THE FEME COVERT Most of the discussion so far has largely applied mainly to single women. For the married woman, the situation in the centuries leading up to the 19th and 20th centuries was profoundly more complex. Most legal historians have long … Continue reading The Feme Covert
Women, rights, and Historical Change Over Time
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 5 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women Part V: Women, rights, and Historical Change Over Time Clearly, in times past, and throughout most of human history, most all roles in the armed forces were combat related. Industrialization, as well as changes in technology, profoundly altered this landscape, however. … Continue reading Women, rights, and Historical Change Over Time
“Stereotypes,” Gender Roles, and “Progress”
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 3 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART III- “STEREOTYPES,” GENDER ROLES, AND “PROGRESS” The biggest reason cited originally for exempting women from Selective Service registration was women’s exclusion from a variety of combat-related roles. However, besides preventing women’s participation in combat (and the aforementioned disruption of traditional … Continue reading “Stereotypes,” Gender Roles, and “Progress”
Selective Service and Women in War
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 2 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women PART II: SELECTIVE SERVICE AND WOMEN IN WAR The modern Selective Service system was originally implemented in 1917 as a result of military necessity during World War I and it appears that the system was originally designed to facilitate men’s breadwinner … Continue reading Selective Service and Women in War
Against the Conscription of Women
against-the-conscription-of-womenDownload This is part 1 of the larger article Against the Conscription of Women Against the Conscription of Women This paper was begun as a reaction to activity in recent years in the federal courts and in Congress regarding the inclusion of women in our nation’s Selective Service system. The purpose of this paper is … Continue reading Against the Conscription of Women
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