Research Catalog

Title

Women, politics, and the Constitution / Naomi B. Lynn, editor.

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors

• Lynn, Naomi B.
• Emory University. Carter Center.
• Jimmy Carter Library.
• Georgia State University.

Description

xiii, 151 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

These conference papers examine the significance of the U.S. Constitution on women's history, rights, and present status. The volume begins with a paper by Sandra Day O'Connor on the exclusion of women from most political and economic protections provided to men. Other papers deal with the role of Mercy Otis Warren in the debates leading to the ratification of the Constitution and the adoption of the Bill of Rights; the struggle for "wholeness" of the African-American woman from 1787 to 1870; female suffrage in New Jersey; the significance of the Nineteenth Amendment for contemporary gender gap politics in the Progressive Era; the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court and her impact on the Court and on individual justices; American sex discrimination laws; the Court's current approach to gender equity; and constitutional changes relating to women's issues in the states between 1977 and 1985. ISBN 1-56024-029-6: $22.95.

Subject

• Women > History > United States > Congresses
• Women > United States > Social conditions > Congresses
• Constitutional history > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Selection of papers from a conference held in Atlanta, Ga., February 1988, sponsored by the Carter Center of Emory University, the Jimmy Carter Library, and the Georgia State University.
• "Has also been published as Women & politics, volume 10, number 2, 1990"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Naomi B. Lynn -- Women and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective / Sandra Day O'Connor -- The Columbian Patriot: Mercy Otis Warren and the Constitution / Larry M. Lane & Judith J. Lane -- From Three-Fifths to Zero: Implications of the Constitution for African-American Women, 1787-1870 / Mamie E. Locke -- Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1790-1807 / Irwin N. Gertzog -- The Significance of the Nineteenth Amendment: A New Look at Civil Rights, Social Welfare, and the Women Suffrage Alignments in the Progressive Era / Eileen Lorenzi McDonagh -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the Supreme Court's Reaction to Its First Female Member / Karen O'Connor & Jeffrey A. Segal -- When Should Differences Make a Difference: A New Approach to the Constitutionality of Gender-Based Laws / Susan Gluck Mezey -- Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage / Deborah L. Rhode -- State Constitutions and Women: Leading or Lagging Agents of Change? / Susan A. MacManus

ISBN

1560240296 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^90037949^

OCLC

21593137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library