Boston University Law Review Online

Anti-Stereotyping and The End of Men

Barbara Stark
Online Symposium: Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
92 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 1 (2012)

As scholars have recently shown, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s earliest sex discrimination work was grounded in anti-stereotyping theory. The particular stereotype she challenged was that of males as breadwinners and females as homemakers. As Cary Franklin notes, Justice Ginsburg’s approach was grounded in “constitutional limits on the state’s power to enforce sex-role stereotypes. While Justice […]

Sex As a Team Sport: A Reaction to Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men

Libby Adler
Online Symposium: Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 1 (2013)

If you access the online version of Hanna Rosin’s 2010 article, The End of Men, you will find an embedded video in which, according to the caption, Rosin and her daughter “debate the superiority of women” with Rosin’s husband and son. For about five minutes, this two-parent family, headed by accomplished journalists, sits in the […]

Sex and Equality

Katharine K. Baker
Online Symposium: Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 11 (2013)

Hanna Rosin devotes the first substantive chapter of The End of Men to heterosexual sex. It is a poignant beginning. As Rosin so ably demonstrates throughout the rest of the book, most of what women do now – work, play, study, parent, run multinational corporations – can be done very well without men. But heterosexual sex, by […]

The End of Men, Again

Kara W. Swanson
Online Symposium: Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 27 (2013)

After a national election cycle in which notoriously liberal Massachusetts elected its first female senator, bringing the proportion of women in the U.S. Senate to a whopping twenty percent, and during which politicians fought over whether female contraceptives were part of basic health care or an accessory to sluttishness, it seems premature, if not downright […]

Underneath Her Pantsuit: A Reflection on Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men

Aziza Ahmed
Online Symposium: Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 39 (2013)

First, I argue that Rosin offers an account of women’s relationship to violence, which can be used as a lens to critique assumptions about women that appear in international law and development. Second, I argue that despite the usefulness of her argument there is a danger in its presentation: she is heavily reliant on race […]

Editor’s Foreword

Perspectives: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 47 (2013)

Hard Facts, Muddled Law: Deciphering the Baby Veronica Decision

Barbara Ann Atwood
Perspectives: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 49 (2013)

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl marks an unwise retreat from the Supreme Court’s earlier embrace of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Animated by understandable empathy for the adoptive parents, Justice Alito’s majority opinion devalues the Indian identity of the child (Veronica) and her relationship with her Indian father. In so doing, the majority’s opinion […]

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Erasing the Last Vestiges of Human Property

James G. Dwyer
Perspectives: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 53 (2013)

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) should be named the Indian Tribal Preservation Act. Although the ICWA was partly a reaction to practices in the 1970s that harmed some children, its primary purpose was to promote the perpetuation of Native American tribes, which were threatened by the largescale exodus of autonomous adult tribe members from […]

Who’s the Father?

Naomi Cahn & June Carbone
Perspectives: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 57 (2013)

When couples manage to be close enough to conceive a child, but not close enough to determine the child’s future, who gets to decide when they disagree: mother, father, state courts, or a tribe? The litigation that produced the Supreme Court decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl demonstrates why we are no closer to […]

Indian Children and Their Guardians Ad Litem

Matthew L.M. Fletcher & Kathryn E. Fort
Perspectives: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 61 (2013)

One of the primary goals of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is to limit the influence or bias of state workers in decisions placing American Indian children out of their home and community. While this focus usually concerns state social workers, the officials who most often seek removal of a child, or the courts, the body that issues the orders and opinions, guardians ad litem (GALs) […]