No Time to Explore Women's Bodies in the Law

One of the things of particular interest to me is the feeling I get that so many of the issues we deal with in our classes revolve around controlling women’s bodies. I’ve heard about a law review article by Ann Althouse, The Lying Woman, The Devious Prostitute, and Other Stories from the Evidence Casebook, 88 NW U.L. Rev. 914, that is supposed to be relevant to this interest of mine. I just looked it up and it would have to be 84 pages long.
But I’ll read it when I somehow find the time, just like when I somehow find the time, I’ll find out who exactly I’m supposed to ask about the possibility of getting funding to go to a conference in the UK: Up against the nation-states of feminist legal theory.
They law school sort of tears away at the soul and is draining in so many ways, and I fight against it, but it’s a beautiful day and I’m about to buckle down and study hard for three hours, then be bailiff for someone for a mock trial, and then go home, grab something to eat, maybe go grocery shopping and then buckle down till midnight, which is about the time that I just can’t seem to stay awake any longer. But more than the work, it’s the concept that some of the things you’re really interested and really want to do – there just doesn’t seem time for. I had this goal to read one law review article a month, but that hasn’t happened (outside of research for classes). And you feel it sometimes, the requirement to understand how things are viewed, the logic used, sometimes you see it infiltrating your feminists concepts or other social justice thoughts, and it’s tough sometimes to remember that just because the legal system has this foundation in patriarchy and ensuring that power remains distributed in a way where the haves get more and the have nots expand their numbers, doesn’t mean that’s the way it has to be. I just remind myself that it’s part of the process.