The 2025 David B. Goodman Lecture

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy
Co-Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Georgetown University

Citizenship: The Long and Complicated Arc of Women’s Equality

This talk engages the topic of citizenship as a matter of law, society, and the place and belonging of women. The talk suggests that persistent and lingering sex inequality has its roots in the fragile threads of women’s full citizenship. The result of this fragmented and fractured citizenship, quasi-citizenship, or non-citizenship has modern-day ramifications that spill out in the present across matters of reproductive health and justice, sexual violence, representation in office, weaponization and subjugation during conflict and crisis, and economic equality. This talk unravels the thread.

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