RSS President Lisa Pruitt publishes article in UMKC Law Review
Dr. Lisa Pruitt, RSS President and Brigitte Bodenheimer Research Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, recently published an article titled “Canaries in the Coal Mine: Rural Women, Maternal Health, and the Future of Feminist Coalition Building” in the UMKC Law Review. The article discusses how women are largely ignored in most types of research, despite the fact that “rural women are proverbial canaries in the coal mine—at least one category of canaries—when it comes to women’s well-being.” The paper, part of the “Transforming Law, Contesting Exclusion, Shaping Inclusion” collection, argues for the need to bring rural women into feminist coalitions and to help rural women feel empowered about their identities.