Lisa R. Pruitt

Publications

• Canaries in the Coal Mine: Rural Women, Maternal Health, and the Future of Feminist Coalition Building
  94 UMKC L. REV. 553 (2026) · UMKC Law Review · 2026
• How Seeing Rural America as a Commons Can (Re)Build Mutual Respect Across the Rural-Urban Divide
  127 W. VA. L. REV. 679 (2025) · West Virginia Law Review · 2025
• Rural Bashing
  57 U. RICH. L. REV. 965 (2023) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2023

• The False Choice between Race and Class and Other Affirmative Myths
  63 BUFF. L. REV. 981 (2015) · Buffalo Law Review · 2015
• Urbanormativity, Spatial Privilege, and Judicial Blind Spots in Abortion Law
  30 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 76 (2015) · Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice · 2015
• Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality, and Termination of Parental Rights
  77 MO. L. REV. (2012) · Missouri Law Review · 2012
• CEDAW and Rural Development: Empowering Women with Law from the Top down, Activism from the Bottom Up
  41 U. BALT. L. REV. (2012) · University of Baltimore Law Review · 2012
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  80 UMKC L. REV. 819 (2012) · UMKC Law Review · 2012
• The Geography of the Class Culture Wars
  34 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 767 (2011) · Seattle University Law Review · 2011
• Deconstructing CEDAW's Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference
  17 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 347 (2011) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2011
• Spatial Inequality as Constitutional Infirmity: Equal Protection, Child Poverty and Place
  71 MONT. L. REV. (2010) · Montana Law Review · 2010

• Migration, Development, and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women
  30 MICH. J. INT'L L. 707 (2009) · Michigan Journal of International Law · 2009
• Gender, Geography
  23 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 338 (2008) · Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice · 2008
• Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural
  2007 UTAH L. REV. (2007) · Utah Law Review · 2007
• Her Own Good Name: Two Centuries of Talk About Chastity
  63 MD. L. REV. 401 (2004) · Maryland Law Review · 2004
• "On the Chastity of Women All Property in the World Depends" : Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century
  78 IND. L.J. (2003) · Indiana Law Journal · 2003
• No Black Names on the Letterhead? Efficient Discrimination and the South African Legal Profession
  23 MICH. J. INT'L L. 545 (2002) · Michigan Journal of International Law · 2002