Feminist legal history : essays on women and law /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2011.
Description:xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
Feminist jurisprudence -- United States.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8373591
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Other authors / contributors:Thomas, Tracy A.
Boisseau, Tracey Jean.
ISBN:9780814787199 (cl : alk. paper)
0814787193 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814787205 (pb : alk. paper)
0814787207 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814787212 (ebook)
0814787215 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Law, History, and Feminism
  • Part I. Contradictions in Legalizing Gender
  • 1. Courts and Temperance "Ladies"
  • 2. Women behind the Wheel Gender and Transportation Law, 1860-1930
  • 3. Expatriation by Marriage The Case of Asian American Women
  • 4. Made with Men in Mind The GI Bill and Its Reinforcement of Gendered Work after World War II
  • 5. Fighting Women The Military Sexy and Extrajudicial Constitutional Change
  • 6. Irrational Women Informed Consent and Abortion Regret
  • Part II. Women's Transformation of the Law
  • 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender
  • 8. "Them Law Wimmin" The Protective Agency for Women and Children and the Gendered Origins of Legal Aid
  • 9. Legal Aid, Women Lay Lawyers, and the Rewriting of History 1863-1930
  • 10. Sisterhood of Struggle Leadership and Strategy in the Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
  • 11. "Feminizing" Courts Lay Volunteers and the Integration of Social Work in Progressive Reform
  • 12. Sexual Harassment Law for Women, by Women
  • 13. Ledbetter's Continuum Race, Gender, and Pay Discrimination
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index