Joanna L Grossman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna L Grossman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna L |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossman |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSMAN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5234-8058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kirsten Swinth. Feminism’s Forgotten Fight
Why did feminists ever think women could have it all? Well, they didn’t exactly. They did not believe that women could “heroically be everything to everyone.” What they thought was that society could be restructured so that the family could be more egalitarian, men could share meaningfully in the raising of children, the state could support families through the provision of high-quality childcare, and the workplace could be open on equal terms to…
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry
Hard Labor
The last forty years have seen the development of greater labor force attachments by both pregnant and postpartum women. These developing attachments have forced courts and legislatures to reimagine the pregnant body as one that is not in a state of watchful waiting, but rather is engaged in hard labor. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 is the key statute that protects these women not only from adverse employment actions motivated by…
Somebody's Children
Journal Article Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption Get access Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. By Laura Briggs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xii, 360 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $25.95.) Joanna L. Grossman Joanna L. Grossman Hofstra UniversityHempstead, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Gender Equality
Separated Spouses
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Guardians
Guardianship is among the least-noticed, least-discussed institutions of the working legal system. For the most part, guardianship is an arrangement that concerns minors who come into a bit of property, or (at times) a lot of it. Guardianship is also an arrangement for managing the affairs of those deemed insane or incompetent. In guardianship proceedings, courts (exercising the parens patriae power of the state) appoint "substitute parents" for …
The Road Less Taken
The existence of annulment prior to the mid-nineteenth century is easily explained. Until 1857, England was a "divorceless society." Accordingly, the only way an unhappy spouse could escape marriage was by seeking an annulment-a declaration that the marriage had never validly existed-from an ecclesiastical court operated by the Catholic Church. According to one family law scholar, "annulments [in those times] performed what we would think of as t…
Women's Jury Service
The Supreme Court recently declared that peremptory challenges based on sex, like those based on race, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this note, Joanna Grossman argues that the Court has finally established the right of women to serve on juries. Women's rights advocates had fought for this right for more than a century, but courts refused to recognize that women were harmed by exclusion from juries and denied …
Somebody's Children
Journal Article Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption Get access Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. By Laura Briggs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xii, 360 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $25.95.) Joanna L. Grossman Joanna L. Grossman Hofstra UniversityHempstead, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Women's Jury Service
The Supreme Court recently declared that peremptory challenges based on sex, like those based on race, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this note, Joanna Grossman argues that the Court has finally established the right of women to serve on juries. Women's rights advocates had fought for this right for more than a century, but courts refused to recognize that women were harmed by exclusion from juries and denied …
Women's Jury Service
The Supreme Court recently declared that peremptory challenges based on sex, like those based on race, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this note, Joanna Grossman argues that the Court has finally established the right of women to serve on juries. Women's rights advocates had fought for this right for more than a century, but courts refused to recognize that women were harmed by exclusion from juries and denied …
Guardians
Guardianship is among the least-noticed, least-discussed institutions of the working legal system. For the most part, guardianship is an arrangement that concerns minors who come into a bit of property, or (at times) a lot of it. Guardianship is also an arrangement for managing the affairs of those deemed insane or incompetent. In guardianship proceedings, courts (exercising the parens patriae power of the state) appoint "substitute parents" for …
The Road Less Taken
The existence of annulment prior to the mid-nineteenth century is easily explained. Until 1857, England was a "divorceless society." Accordingly, the only way an unhappy spouse could escape marriage was by seeking an annulment-a declaration that the marriage had never validly existed-from an ecclesiastical court operated by the Catholic Church. According to one family law scholar, "annulments [in those times] performed what we would think of as t…
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Separated Spouses
Gender Equality
Somebody's Children
Journal Article Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption Get access Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. By Laura Briggs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xii, 360 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $25.95.) Joanna L. Grossman Joanna L. Grossman Hofstra UniversityHempstead, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Hard Labor
The last forty years have seen the development of greater labor force attachments by both pregnant and postpartum women. These developing attachments have forced courts and legislatures to reimagine the pregnant body as one that is not in a state of watchful waiting, but rather is engaged in hard labor. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 is the key statute that protects these women not only from adverse employment actions motivated by…
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry
Kirsten Swinth. Feminism’s Forgotten Fight
Why did feminists ever think women could have it all? Well, they didn’t exactly. They did not believe that women could “heroically be everything to everyone.” What they thought was that society could be restructured so that the family could be more egalitarian, men could share meaningfully in the raising of children, the state could support families through the provision of high-quality childcare, and the workplace could be open on equal terms to…
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