Institutional Paths to Equality: The Military, Courts, Marriage, and the Family

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The promise of democratic equality is most often undercut by a myriad of discrimination policies that target people because of their race, class, and sex. Each paper on this panel analyzes how a particular institution – the military, courts, marriage, and the family – offers a pathway having the potential for achieving greater civil, social, economic, and political rights for disadvantaged groups. Together the papers on this panel contribute an historical and panoramic assessment of the capacity of key institutions to make the democratic promise a reality.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• Masculinity and Service: The Uncertain Military Path to Citizenship Rights - Julie L. Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY

• Maternalist Visions: The Uncertain Judicial Path to Social Rights - Kathleen S. Sullivan, Ohio University

• Gendered Power: The Uncertain Marital Path to Political Rights - Linda C. McClain, Boston University

• Vulnerability and the State: The Uncertain Familial Path to Welfare Rights - Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University

Chair

• Patricia Strach University at Albany, SUNY

Discussants

• Patricia Strach University at Albany, SUNY

• Gwendoline M. Alphonso Fairfield University