NANCY E. DOWD
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law

P.O. Box 117625
2500 SW 2nd Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32611-7625

(last updated 11/3/05; report problems to zimmerca@law.ufl.edu)




Office Hours:  Wed. 1:00-2:00 pm, or by appointment
Office:  Room 368D, Holland Hall (in Center on Children & Families)
Phone:  352/273-0930 (direct)
Email:  dowd@law.ufl.edu
Secretary:  Cindy Zimmerman, 352/273-0665, zimmerca@law.ufl.edu, Rm. 340 Holland Hall


Previous Courses (some links may no longer function)


Works of Previous Students

Artwork Collections [large files, may take a minute or even two to load]

FAMILY Defined in Pictures (powerpoint)
A Selection of Students' Works, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 (powerpoints)


Essays & Papers

"Beyond Naming": A Brief Overview of Feminist Ideology in the African American Community
"A Confession & Regret"
"Date Rape":  Two Stories
"Divorced"
"Domestic Violence":  A Male's Perspective
"Family Violence": Memories
"The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on Gender Interaction"
"Should Fault Be Brought Back Into Divorce?"
"Tales from the Gypped"
"To Be a Woman, Or Not to Be? That is the Question"

"Understanding Date Rape on College Campuses":  Focusing on Gender Norms, Gender Stereotypes, and Sexual Norms that Lead to Date Rape

"V I C I O U S:  Chronic Verbal Abuse Is Battering - An Analysis"
"Violation":  Here Are My Words


Other Creations

"A Song (I'm Alone) and an Analysis"
"Aunt Sam":  A Trivia Game
"Gender Jeopardy" (a game)
"Milly's Big Race" (illustrated rhyming poem)
"A Poem & Critical Analysis Plus"
"Sara's Turn at Bat" (illustrated storybook)
"Society's Gap" (poem)
"Torn":  A Mother's Lament (poem)
"Why Can't I Cry":  Emotional Illiterateness of Boys (poem)

Powerpoint Presentations [large files, may take a minute to load; start with slide/image 2]

"Musical Gender in the Workplace"
"Title IX:  The History of Women & Football, 1900s-2000s"


Projects [some are large files, may take a minute to load]

"AHA!" (a takeoff on popular TV show "Street Smarts")

“Gender Is A Power Tool”

"Discrimination in the Workplace" (website)

"Gender and the Law School"

"Making a Difference"
"Out of the Vacuum and Into Reality":  A Law Student's Life
"Teen Pregnancy:  A Comprehensive Approach"
"Elements of a Women":  A Compilation of Poety, Art and Photographs Expressing the Various Experiences of Women
"The Role of Black Women in Opera"