tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post2830778418457461366..comments2019-05-15T23:59:20.159-07:00Comments on Feminist Legal Theory: Remembering the "W Effect"Lisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post-12600459995600660772010-10-14T16:22:30.747-07:002010-10-14T16:22:30.747-07:00While we have spent much time discussing how law c...While we have spent much time discussing how law can fill many gaps and how it needs to fill many gaps, this post illuminates how law can dictate how we view things. This type of legislation is steering us to how we should view men and women, and how we should view marriage, and finally how we should view conception. What it fails to do is acknowledge the individual perspective and more importantly feminist issues that had previously been part of the law. <br /><br />Personally, for me, initiatives such as abstinence and sex education, that were implemented during the Bush administration failed our country. Not only did this set the tone for how men and women interact in relationships and understood sex, but it also failed in terms of education. For all the strides that had been taken in educating the public after the AIDS epidemic, after birth control, and "the sexual revolution," we failed our future by ensuring that the only safe way of having sex is to not have sex until you are married. Forget the issues of rape, domestic abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases - for this administration and the abstinence proponents - all that matters is that sex is left to a heterosexual marriage and nothing exists else exists in this spectrum.N.P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08296347844003958446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post-81423872772811720782010-10-10T12:05:26.800-07:002010-10-10T12:05:26.800-07:00I read this book and am still outraged!
It will...I read this book and am still outraged! <br /><br /> It will take Obama two terms as President to undo just the damage that “W” did to women. The massive assault on programs that support needy women will take generations to repair.<br /><br />What is even more disturbing is the “framing” that was done by Bush and his republican cronies as it relates to what it is to be a good woman in America. This is the unseen damage.<br /><br />One of Bush’s “accomplishments” was the Successful Marriage Initiative. This was highlighted in The “W” Effect in the chapter called Wedding Bells and Welfare Bucks. This wholesale modification of the welfare system eliminated poor women’s option, not to marry if they wanted to continue to seek government assistance to survive. This spurred a rash of state marriage initiatives such as the one in Arizona.<br /><br />Below are two links that I think are useful.<br />The first one talks about the effects of the initiative and the second one demonstrates how the Republican think tanks “reframing” cast unmarried women as “bad” and “married women” as the ideal.<br /><br />http://www.womensenews.org/story/commentary/030910/bush-marriage-initiative-robs-billions-needy<br /><br />http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/welfare-reform-and-the-healthy-marriage-initiativeRebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633194533296357627noreply@blogger.com