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Feminist Frictions:
Free Speech

Digital Archive:
Theorizing the State of Free Speech

Accompanying Mary Anne Franks’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Speaking of Women: Feminism and Free Speech“

Other Digital Archive Pages:

Abusive Speech & Online Platform Governance | Academic Freedom & Free Speech | Free Speech & LGBTQ+ Rights

Academic Articles

Becker, Mary E. (1993). “Conservative Free Speech and the Uneasy Case for Judicial Review.” 64 U. Colo. L. Rev. 975-1020.

Brison, Susan. (2021). “Free Speech Skepticism.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 31(2): 101-32.

Brison, Susan J. (1998). “The Autonomy Defense Of Free Speech.” Ethics, 108(2), 312-339.

Citron, Danielle K. (2019). “Restricting Speech to Protect It,” in Susan J. Brison & Katharine Gelber (Eds.), Free Speech in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press.

Finley, Lucinda M. (1989). “Breaking Women’s Silence in Law: The Dilemma of the Gendered Nature of Legal Reasoning.” 64 Notre Dame L. Rev. 886, 886–87.

Franks, Mary Anne. (2019). “Beyond ‘Free Speech for the White Man’: Feminism and the First Amendment,” in Robin West & Cynthia Bowman (Eds.), Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Franks, Mary Anne. (2018). “Fearless Speech.” First Amend. L. Rev. 17: 294.

Gale, Mary Ellen & Nadine Strossen. (1989). “The Real ACLU.” 2 Yale J.L. & Feminism 161-180. 

Hornsby, Jennifer, and Rae Langton. (1998). “Free Speech and Illocution.” Legal Theory, 4, 21.

Lederer, Edith. “UN Investigator: Gender Equality in Free Speech is Far Off.” US News, October 18, 2021.

Williams, Susan H. (2009). “Feminist Theory and Freedom of Speech, Free Speech Theory.” Indiana Law Journal, 84,3, 11. 

Zittlow Rogness, Kate. (2015). “The Vote as Voice: Tracing the Intersections of Feminism and Free Speech Through Emmeline Pankhurst’s Address ‘Freedom or Death’.” First Amendment Studies 49(2): 71-85.


Online Articles

Fakhoury, Hanni. “With VAWA, A Major Step Forward in Combating Violence, But Constitutional Concerns Remain.” Electronic Frontier Foundation. March 14, 2013. 

Giorgis, Hannah. “A Deeply Provincial View of Free Speech.” The Atlantic. July 13, 2020.

Pauly, Madison. “She Said, He Sued.” Mother Jones. March/April 2020.

Richardson-Self, Louise. “Who Really Benefits from Freedom of Speech?” The Conversation, March 7, 2016.

Talbot, Margaret. “The Radical Women Who Paved the Way for Free Speech and Free Love.” The New Yorker, July 19, 2021.


Defending free speech: a short thread. Many people come to free speech as a cause because their own views were shut down in some way. This means that their defence of free speech can often mean ‘I just want to be able to say the thing I want to say’. 1/7

— Jodie Ginsberg (@jodieginsberg) January 15, 2021

Books

Butler, Judith. (1997). Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. Routledge.

Mackinnon, Catherine. (1996). Only Words. Harvard University Press.

Williams, Susan. (2004). Truth, Autonomy, Speech:  Feminist Theory and the First Amendment. NYU Press.

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