Women and the American Legal Order

ISBN-13: 9780815325154 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 356 str.

Karen Maschke

Opis

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Constitutionality of Discrimination Based on Sex, The Negro Woman's Stake in the Equal Rights Amendment, Invisible Women: The Legal Fiction of Marital Unity in Nineteenth-Century America, The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism, The Legal Status of Women in Early America: A Reappraisal, The Emerging Legal History of Women in the United States: Property, Divorce, and the Constitution, Unthinking ERA Thinking: A Review of Why We Lost the ERA, Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation, Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears, Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights, Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America, From Three-Fifths to Zero: Implications of the Constitution for African-American Women, 1787–1870, Women's Rights and the Limits of Constitutional Doctrine, Equality Challenged: Equal Rights and Sexual Difference, Acknowledgments

O autorze

about the editor
Karen J. Maschke holds a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Her area of specialization in public law, with a concentration on women and the law. She is the author of Litigation, Courts, and Women Workers (Praeger, 1989) and has published articles concerning women's legal rights. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the national Endowment for the Humanities.