Katherine Franke

Katherine Franke
Organization / Company: Columbia Law School

Katherine Franke is a Professor of Law
and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Law Program at Columbia Law
School.  She teaches courses in gender equality, police brutality,
sexuality and queer legal theory. 
Her research has focused on gender and racial equality and well as the
regulation of sexuality in domestic, transnational and international
contexts. Her website is: http://www2.law.columbia.edu/faculty_franke/index.htm,
information about the Gender and Sexuality Law Program is at http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/gendersexualitylaw/,
and the Program's blog is: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/genderandsexualitylawblog/.

Katherine Franke's articles

Running Like A Girl: Sex-Stereotyping in the Olympics

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by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

February 4, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

Male athletes--think Armstrong, Phelps, jockeys--have "physical traits" considered responsible for superior performance, while elite female athletes are increasingly being tested and "treated" for "Disorders of Sexual Development."
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The Queering of Health Reform

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by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

October 21, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

Just as it is wrong to make better health care available only to those who can afford it, so too, it is wrong to make coverage contingent on a life that looks like the Brady Bunch. Good health care should not depend on wealth or hetero-patriarchy.
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