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An Imperfect Remedy for Imperfect Violence: The Construction of Civil Rights in the Violence Against Women Act
Along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) could be the most significant addition to federal civil rights laws in the last century. While potentially revolutionary, the VAWA's civil rights remedy forges two problematic legal concepts-traditional civil rights jurisprudence and "perfect" violence-into a super-remedy that risks combining the worst aspects of each. Those who utilize and interpret the Act can avoid this outcome by situating individual violent acts in the broader social and historical context of gender-motivated violence.Prostitution: A Narrative by a Former “Call Girl”
Why do women get involved in prostitution? I believe there are two primary causes: money and drugs.Strategies of Connection: Prostitution and Feminist Politics
A feminist political approach to prostitution must begin from these strengths and be tested against the standards set by them. I want to address how taking each of these strengths seriously can create sustained resistance against prostitution.Prostitution is Cruelty and Abuse to Women and Children
Each day I rise to take up the truly good fight to stop the harm to women in prostitution. I long for complete liberation of all oppressed peoples. I passionately believe that the work I do to end prostitution is revolutionary. No one deserves to be used and abused, and that is the universal experience of prostituted women and children. It is also revolutionary work because my freedom as a woman is meaningless so long as some of us can be bought and sold. The giant sex industry grinds on, exploiting and enslaving women, while sexual liberals are well-paid by that industry to mock us with shallow concepts-concepts premised on never having heard the cries or experienced the terror of the victims of this monstrous institution.Challenging Solicitation Statues as Unconstitutional: Appellate Brief in Support of Defendant-Appellant in Ypsilanti v. Patterson
Appellate Brief in Support of Defendant-Appellant in Ypsilanti v. PattersonPimping and Pornography as Sexual Harassment: Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff-Respondent in Thoreson v. Penthouse Int’l LTD.
Several issues were raised on appeal to the New York Court of Appeals. Thoreson AKA DiLorenzo was the Respondent on the issue of sexual harassment and the Appellant on the issue of the amount of damages awarded by the Supreme Court. This portion of the brief addresses only the issue of sexual harassment. Wendy C. Lecker (J.D. 1988, New York University School of Law), authored a section on the issue of compensatory damages.