Research Catalog

Title

Women and the United States Constitution : history, interpretation, and practice / edited by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schwarzenbach, Sibyl A.
• Smith, Patricia.

Description

xiv, 396 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Constitutional history > United States
• Equal rights amendments > United States
• Feminist jurisprudence > United States
• Women > History. > United States
• Women's rights > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship / Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach -- The Founding Period -- 2. Representation of Women in the Constitution / Jan Lewis -- 3. Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic / Norma Basch -- 4. The Explanation Lies in Property: Gender and Its Connection to Economic Considerations / Carol Berkin -- Reconstruction -- 5. Women, Bondage, and the Reconstructed Constitution / Peggy Cooper Davis -- 6. The Unkept Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment: A Call for Reparations / Adjoa Aiyetoro -- Women and the Welfare State -- 7. The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy / Frances Fox Piven -- 8. The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty / Patricia Smith -- The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Context -- 9. Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution / Judith Resnik -- 10. What's Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 11. Women's Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue / Carol C. Gould -- Privacy and Family Law -- 12. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy, and Equality / Elizabeth M. Schneider -- 13. Infringements of Women's Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion / Lucinda Joy Peach -- 14. What Place for Family Privacy? / Martha Albertson Fineman -- 15. The Right to Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition / David A. J. Richards -- Women and Work -- 16. The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment / Eileen Boris -- 17. Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach / Susan Sturm -- 18. Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited / Joan Williams -- Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment -- 19. Women and Citizenship: The Virginia Military Institute Case / Philippa Strum -- 20. "Heightened Scrutiny": An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women / Cynthia Harrison -- 21. Whatever Happened to the ERA? / Jane Mansbridge.

ISBN

• 0231128924 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231128932 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003055252

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries