Gender Studies

I am grateful for the comments I received on earlier drafts from Richard Banks, Rebecca Brown, Janet Giele, Phoebe Haddon, Michael Helfand, Fred Schauer, and Molly Walker. I also received helpful feedback from the participants in workshops at Duke Law School, the University of Minnesota Law School, Stanford Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and Wake Forest School of Law, as well as from attendees at my keynote speech at the Lavender Law Conference in San Francisco in September 2008, and from participants in the MidAtlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in January 2009 and the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference at Seton Hall University School of Law in September 2010. Student workshops at the University of Virginia and at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, also provided useful feedback. The University of Virginia School of Law reference librarians, including Ben Doherty and Alison White, provided superb assistance. A special thanks to Jared Campbell, Evan Didier, Sarah Fritsch, Sarah Johns, Tim Lovelace, Chris Mincher, and Hadi Sedigh for their diligent research assistance and very helpful discussions. I welcome comments at kimfm@virginia.edu.

The author wishes to thank the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Boston University; the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law; Rutgers Law School; Fordham University School of Law; Seton Hall University School of Law; Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University; the University of Washington School of Law; and the University of Miami Law School for helpful conversation. I am especially indebted to Kathryn Abrams, Kenny Alston, Sergio Campos, Mary Anne Case, Paisley Currah, Katie Eyer, Sheila Foster, Katherine Franke, Mary Anne Franks, Andrew Gilden, Zil Goldstein, Gayatri Gopinath, Joanna Grossman, Bruce Hay, Tracy Higgins, Clare Huntington, Molly Van Houweling, Neal Katyal, Alexander Lee, Linda McClain, Melissa Murray, Russell Robinson, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Darren Rosenblum, Simone Ross, Dean Spade, Edward Stein, Leti Volpp, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their insights and suggestions. I am also particularly grateful for the incredible research assistance of Juli Adhikari, Joseph Galvin, Andrea Hall, Kelly Herbert, Nicole Rivera, and Catherine Song.