Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy of Dissent : Feminist Rhetoric and the Law /

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"Ruth Bader Ginsburg's lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from equal protection to reproductive rights. Beginning in the early 1970s, Ginsbur...

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Main Author: Gibson, Katie L. (Katie Lorayne), 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, > 1933-2020
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, > 1933-2020.
Women's rights.
Women judges.
Judges.
Feminist theory.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Dissenting opinions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
Theorie feministe > Histoire.
Feminisme et droit > États-Unis > Histoire.
Opinions dissidentes (Droit) > États-Unis.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Feminist theory > History.
Women's rights > United States > History.
Feminist jurisprudence > United States > History.
Dissenting opinions > United States.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Women judges > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Patriarchal Voice of the Law: Generic Scripts and Bradwell v. Illinois; 1. Judicial Rhetoric and Women's Place: The Legal Precedent of Separate Spheres; 2. Advancing a Language of Feminist Jurisprudence: Reed v. Reed and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Grandparent Brief; 3. Shifting the Boundaries of Equal Protection: Justice Ginsburg's Defense of Progressive Constitutionalism in United States v. Virginia; 4. Confronting the Boundaries of Abortion Jurisprudence: Justice Ginsburg's Equality Rationale in Gonzales v. Carhart; 5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy of Dissent: Feminist Contributions and Democratic Promise.

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