| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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Women's rights -- United States.
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Equal rights amendments -- United States.
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Feminist jurisprudence -- United States.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
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Equal rights amendments. (OCoLC)fst00914449
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Feminist jurisprudence. (OCoLC)fst00922778
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01176824
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Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Schwarzenbach, Sibyl A.
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Smith, Patricia, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women and the United States Constitution. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231128932 0231128924 (DLC) 2003055252 (OCoLC)52477215 |
| ISBN |
0231502966 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231502962 (electronic bk.) |
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