Sex Equality, Sex Differences, and the Supreme Court

Rhode Island Supreme Court Holds Family Court Cannot Divorce Same-sex Couple Married in Massachusetts

Sex, Dose, and Equality

A s a rule, genes and chromosomes come in pairs. Sex chromosomes are an exception to this rule. Males of many species have only one X chromosome, a male-specific Y chromosome, and a set of autosomes (AA). Individuals with two X chromosomes and a set of autosomes (XX;AA) are female. Sex chromosomes were first noticed for this distinct unpaired morphology and are now known to have substantially d...

Sex offender registration and community notification challenges: the Supreme Court continues its trend.

All states and the District of Columbia have passed sex offender registration and community notification laws. While the specific provisions of these statutes vary, all have public safety as a primary goal. The authors discuss two recent cases heard by the United States Supreme Court that challenged the constitutionality of Alaska's and Connecticut's statutes. The laws were challenged as violat...

Revealed Public Opinion on Twitter: The Supreme Court of the United States Same-Sex Marriage Decisions

Sex Equality : Difference and Dominance

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a "natural group": "a socia! group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies." A lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a "natural group." A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from...