Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-055252
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This unique anthology examines how assumptions about gender and laws concerning women's property rights and divorce contributed to the development of the Constitution.... It goes on to explore contemporary issues such as abortion, gay rights, and employment discrimination." -- The Women's Review of Books
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
342.730878
Table Of Content
Preface Part I: History Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship, by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach Part II: Interpretation: The Founding Period Part III. Practice Representation of Women in the Constitution, by Jan Lewis Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic, by Norma Basch Who Are We Kidding? It Was All About Property Stupid: Notes on Basch and Lewis, by Carol Berkin Reconstruction Davis Women, Bondage and the Reconstructed Constitution, by Peggy Cooper The Unkept Promise of the 13th Amendment: A Call forReparations, by Adjoa Aiyetoro Women and the Welfare State The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy, by Francis Fox Piven The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty, by Patricia Smith The US Constitution in Comparative Context Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution, by Judith Resnik What's Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique, by Martha Nussbaum Women's Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue, by Carol Gould Privacy and Family Law Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy and Equality, by Elizabeth Schneider Infringements of Women's Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion, by Lucinda Peach What Place for Family Privacy?, by Martha Fineman The Right of Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition, by David Richards Women and Work The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment, by Eileen Boris Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach, by Susan Sturm Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited, by Joan Williams Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment Women and Citizenship: the Virginia Military Institute Case, by Philippa Strum Heightened Scrutiny: An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women, by Cynthia Harrison Whatever Happened to the ERA?, by Jane Mansbridge
Synopsis
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 of women. Divided into three parts--History, Interpretation, and Practice--this book views the Constitution as a living document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns. Feminism lacks both a constitutional theory as well as a clearly defined theory of political legitimacy within the framework of democracy. The scholars included here take significant and crucial steps toward these theories. In addition to constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination, basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S. Constitution explores other issues of central concern to contemporary women--areas that, strictly speaking, are not yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective of their potentially transformative role in the future development of constitutional law., Divided into three parts -- History, Interpretation, and Practice -- 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 of women., Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-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 of women.
LC Classification Number
KF478.A5W654 2004
