Document Type
Review
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
In Gendered Liberty, Prof. Laura Portuondo presents a doctrinal puzzle: While claims to individual liberty are in decline in some spaces, they are ascendant in others. As Portuondo describes things, constitutional law has become increasingly hostile to claims by people who seek to defy gendered stereotypes. That includes the women who, for whatever reason, do not want to become mothers when they are pregnant, as well as the women whose lives, health, or fertility would be in jeopardy if they became mothers. The Supreme Court overruled their claims to liberty in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Recommended Citation
Litman, Leah. "Free to be You but Not Me?" Review of Gendered Liberty, JOTWELL no. 1 (2025). (Reviewing Laura Portuondo, Gendered Liberty, 113 Geo. L.J. 707 (2025))
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Law and Gender Commons, Legal Writing and Research Commons, Sexuality and the Law Commons