Publications and Presentations
In progress: The Gay Divorcée, a full-length study of alternative family formation and dissolution.
Guest Opinion: "Marriage Is Here to Stay in Massachusetts," The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, XIX.4 (July-August 2007). Download
“Sexuality, Marriage, and Relationships: The Radical Potential of Lawrence v. Texas,” with Mary Lyndon Shanley, in The Future of Gay Rights in America, ed. H. N. Hirsch (Routledge, 2005).
“Will It Be Marriage or Civil Union?”
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, XI.2 (March-April 2004); rpt. Elements of Argument, 8th ed. (Bedford / St. Martin’s 2005) and Structure of Argument, 5th ed. (Bedford / St. Martin’s 2005).
“Is the Sky Falling? Post Same-Sex Marriage Perspectives,” The “New” Family Law: a National Symposium on the Socio-Legal Implications.” Seattle University School of Law, November 12-13, 2004.
“Lawrence v. Texas: A Victory for Liberty,” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, X.6 (November-December 2003).
“Slow Going.” Review of Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights by William Eskridge, The Women’s Review of Books, XX.4 (January 2003).
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“Divorce Without Marriage: The Looking-Glass World of Same-Sex Breakups,” Wellesley College Centers for Women, Wellesley, MA (April 18, 2002).
“How the High Court Finally Came Around,”
a review of Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, VIII.6 (January-February 2002).
“Breaking Up is Hard to Do,” Wellesley College Centers for Women, Wellesley, MA (January 25, 2001).
Presenter at “Family Law – Not for All Families,” at the Michigan State University School of Social Work, March 22, 2000.
“Good Intentions.” Review of The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm, The Women's Review of Books, XVI.6 (March 1999); rpt. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 201, ed. Jeff Hunter (Gale 2005).
“Opening the Eyes of Justice.” Review of Caring for Justice by Robin West and Beyond Portia: Women, Law, and Literature in the United States, ed. Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney, The Women’s Review of Books, XV.3 (December 1997).
“Rambo Litigators and Mothering Paralegals,” a review of Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms by Jennifer Pierce, WBA Quarterly, XIX.2 (August 1997).
“Is HIV a Disability?: The First Circuit Will Decide,” MBA IRR Section News, IX.2 (March 1997).
“Sex Offender Registry Comes to Massachusetts,” MBA IRR Section News, IX.1 (November 1996).
Review of Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England by Mary Poovey, and Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Susan Morgan, The Women’s Review of Books VII.2 (November 1989).
“Running the Basepaths: Baseball and Jane Austen,” The Journal of Narrative Technique 18.3 (Fall 1988): 269-77.
“Gender and Imagination,” review-essay on In Dora’s Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism, by Charles Bernheimer and Clare Kahane; Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts, by Nina Auerbach; Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction, by Naomi Schor; Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; The Poetics of Gender, ed. Nancy K. Miller, Women’s Review of Books IV.9 (June 1987).
“’The (im)perfect happiness of the union’: Jane Austen and the Problem of Closure,” Northeast MLA, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (April 1987).
“Fantasy Life,” review-essay on The Life of Jane Austen, by John Halperin and Jane Austen’s Heroines: Intimacy in Human Relationships by John Hardy, Women’s Review of Books II.1 (August 1985).
“History in Persuasion: One Woman’s Past and Present,” Boston University, Boston, MA (March 1982).
“Two Unrecorded Manuscripts of ‘Christabel,’” The Wordsworth Circle XIII.4 (Autumn 1982): 214-18.