
The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women
Cases in Law and Social Change
Oxford University Press Inc
3rd Edition
Published on 25. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
650 pages
978-0-19-533074-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change is designed to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, sophisticated treatment of the legal status of all American women.
Authors Baer and Goldstein skillfully blend doctrinal and political developments to document and explain the evolution of women's rights and the law-as well as the dynamics and dissension within the feminist movement. Building on Goldstein's previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, gender discrimination, and women's rights with new cases and readings on family law, gay rights, and criminal law.
This edition takes a more socio-political and institutional approach than other books on women and the law. The authors consider issues such as institutional questions of constitutional interpretation, the scope of judicial power, the balance of federal-state power, the interaction between law and other social and political institutions, and the capacity of law to effect societal change. The inclusion of state and lower federal court decisions greatly strengthens the book's focus on the law's
relationship to gendered inequality.
Topics also include constitutional history, job discrimination, gender equality, advances in reproductive technology law, divorce, child custody, education, same-sex marriage, pornography, and domestic violence.
Authors Baer and Goldstein skillfully blend doctrinal and political developments to document and explain the evolution of women's rights and the law-as well as the dynamics and dissension within the feminist movement. Building on Goldstein's previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, gender discrimination, and women's rights with new cases and readings on family law, gay rights, and criminal law.
This edition takes a more socio-political and institutional approach than other books on women and the law. The authors consider issues such as institutional questions of constitutional interpretation, the scope of judicial power, the balance of federal-state power, the interaction between law and other social and political institutions, and the capacity of law to effect societal change. The inclusion of state and lower federal court decisions greatly strengthens the book's focus on the law's
relationship to gendered inequality.
Topics also include constitutional history, job discrimination, gender equality, advances in reproductive technology law, divorce, child custody, education, same-sex marriage, pornography, and domestic violence.
Reviews / Votes
Two of our nation's most distinguished constitutional scholars have superbly integrated history, court structure, and judicial politics with case law and commentary. This book is so well-written and approachable, scholarly, and complete in the range and depth of its discussion of the hot-button constitutional issues facing women (constitutional equality, employment and family law, reproductive freedom, education, and crime) that I plan to use it in mycourses. * Ron Kahn, Oberlin College *
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1466 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-533074-8 (9780195330748)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Professor of Political ScienceProfessor of Political Science, Texas A & M University
Professor of Political Science and International RelationsProfessor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware
Content
CHAPTER 1: WOMEN SEEK CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY ; CHAPTER 2: WOMEN ATTAIN (?) CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY ; CHAPTER 3: WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT ; CHAPTER 4: GENDER AND FAMILY LAW ; CHAPTER 5: WOMEN AND REPRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 6: WOMEN AND EDUCATION ; CHAPTER 7: WOMEN AND CRIME ; CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS