Scholarly article on the necessity for accurate and meaningful sex descriptors in law.

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Thistledew · 17/04/2018 20:52

A well-stated and researched article may be of interest here

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Mumsnut · 17/04/2018 20:54

Link is dodgy. Can you tell us the source / author?

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Thistledew · 17/04/2018 21:03

Sorry, it worked for me. It downloads as a pdf.

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Thistledew · 17/04/2018 21:06

Article is called

PREGNANT “PERSONS”:
THE LINGUISTIC DEFANGING OF WOMEN’S ISSUES AND THE LEGAL DANGER OF “BRAIN-SEX” LANGUAGE
By Andrea Orwoll

Published in the Nevada Law Journal in October 2017.

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SomeDyke · 17/04/2018 21:19

You gotta love an article that has a quote from Mary Daly under the title, and mentions Charlotte Perkins Gilman............

Looks like an excellent article :-)

UpstartCrow · 17/04/2018 21:21

Here's a direct link to the PDF;

scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1719&context=nlj

I think we need to post links like this ^ so people can see what they are clicking on.

BarrackerBarmer · 18/04/2018 00:20

It is long, and I am only halfway through, but it is EXCELLENT.
And we need a British version.

miri1985 · 18/04/2018 01:27

The author was on the feminist current podcast last week www.feministcurrent.com/2018/04/11/podcast-sex-matters-law/

DJLippy · 18/04/2018 10:38

Gender neutral language is poison. See this consultation paper. If gender neutrality was the intention why don't we have similar conversations about the penis (or tubular sperm gland as I prefer.) Why is the female body so 'triggering.'?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeOLeNLYqdJEwePd6dPUaReqCcF5vidJnx3FZ_01klnBKvPA/viewform

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