Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform
dc.contributor.author | Baldwin, Margaret | |
dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:35:10.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:54:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:54:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-10-20T13:56:13-07:00 | |
dc.identifier | yjlf/vol5/iss1/3 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 7745344 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7168 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article originated in some years of feminist activism, and a sustained effort to understand two sentences spoken by Evelina Giobbe, an antiprostitution activist and educator, at a radical feminist conference in 1987. She said: "Prostitution isn't like anything else. Rather, everything else is like prostitution because it is the model for women's condition." Since that time, I have listened to those sentences echo in my mind, as if they wanted to teach me something I could not yet understand but needed to. I believe now that my perplexity arose, perversely, from my own commitments as a lawyer and activist in support of women in prostitution: not, it seemed, from the commitment part, but from the lawyer part. Thinking from within prevailing discourses of feminist legal theory and law reform strategies, I found myself precluded from any adequate engagement with, much less response to, Giobbe's analysis. That is something to notice. A sister suggests that you take a look at her car, as something seems to be rattling. You stand befuddled, gazing at the saw and hammer in your hands. | |
dc.title | Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Yale Journal of Law & Feminism | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:54:56Z | |
dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlf/vol5/iss1/3 | |
dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=yjlf&unstamped=1 |