Women and the United States Constitution : history, interpretation, and practice /

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Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Schwarzenbach, Sibyl A. (Editor), Smith, Patricia, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Women's rights > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Equal rights amendments > United States.
Feminist jurisprudence > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Equal Rights Amendment > États-Unis.
Féminisme et droit > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Constitutional history.
Equal rights amendments.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women and constitutional interpretation : the forgotten value of civic friendship / Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
  • Representation of women in the Constitution / Jan Lewis
  • Declarations of independence : women and divorce in the early republic / Norma Basch
  • Explanation lies in property : gender and its connection to economic considerations / Carol Berkin
  • Women, bondage, and the reconstructed Constitution / Peggy Cooper Davis
  • Unkept promise of the Thriteenth Amendment : a call for reparations / Adjoa Aiyetoro
  • Culture of work enforcement : race, gender and U.S. welfare police / Frances Fox Piven
  • Silent Constitution : affirmative obligation and the feminization of poverty / Federalism(s), feminism, families, and the Constitution / Judith Resnik
  • What's privacy got to do with it? A comparative approach to the feminist critique / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Women's human rights and the U.S. Constitution : initiating a dialogue / Carol C. Gould
  • Battered women, feminist lawmaking, privacy, and equality / Elizabeth M. Schneider
  • Infringements of women's constitutional rights in religious lawmaking on abortion / Lucinda Joy Peach
  • What place for family privacy? / Martha Albertson Fineman
  • Right to privacy and gay/lesbian sexuality : beyond decriminalization to equal recognition / David A.J. Richards
  • Gender of discrimination : race, sex, and fair employment / Eileen Boris
  • Second generation employment discrimination : a structural approach / Susan Sturm
  • Our economy of mothers and others : women and economics revisited / Joan Williams
  • Women and citizenship : the Virginia Military Institute case / Philippa Strum
  • "Heightened scrutiny" : An alternative route to constitutional equality for U.S. women / Cynthia Harrison
  • Whatever happened to the ERA / Jane Mansbridge.

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