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- catalog abstract "Presents a study of the legal status of women, focusing on the years since 1933, discussing constitutional law, paid work and the home, reproductive freedom, education and barriers, and women as actors and subjects in the legal system.".
- catalog contributor b12637125.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction : women and the law -- Suggested reading -- 2. Women and the Constitution -- The historical background -- 1937 : the battle of the New Deal -- The slough of patriarchy : 1937-1971 -- The Warren court and the rights revolution -- Tiers and a "mezzanine" : the Burger court years -- Intermediate scrutiny : judging the justification -- The rights of unwed fathers, if they have any -- What are all these men doing here? -- The VMI case -- When is discrimination not discrimination -- Separate but equal -- The constitutional mini-revolution -- The Equal Rights Amendment -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 3. Women and employment -- Equal pay and comparable worth -- Equal opportunity and sex discrimination -- Title VII and protective legislation -- "Sex plus" discrimination, redefined -- Sexual harassment -- Indirect discrimination and facially neutral rules -- Indirection and subjectivity -- Affirmative action : past and future -- The worker as mother, actual or potential -- Conclusion : one cheer for a paycheck -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog description "4. Women's intimate lives : beyond the patriarchal family -- Preserving family values -- Law, society, and the family -- From divorce to dissolution -- No-fault divorce and the feminization of poverty -- The government and the former family -- Child custody -- Fathers' rights and adoption -- Death, patriarchy, and the American family -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 5. Women and reproduction -- Where individualism fails : pregnancy and power -- "If we don't own the flesh we stand in" : fertility and freedom -- Infertility by Fiat : compulsory sterilization -- Squelching and squealing : the special case of the young -- The right to motherhood -- Motherhood and the new technology -- Reproductive freedom and the right to privacy -- Abortion and the constitution -- Since Roe : a feminist jurisprudence of reproductive rights -- Whose choice? Whose knowledge? What conditions? When? -- Abortions and public funding -- The future of choice -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog description "6. Gateways and barriers : education and participation -- The walls crumble down : from the 1930s to the 1970s -- Educational equality and congressional initiative -- Courts, congress, and civil rights -- Women in the educational system -- Women and community life : removing the barriers -- Prioritizing rights : private association and public good -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 7. Practitioners, actors, subjects : women in the legal system -- Rape : a crime of patriarchy -- Dirty little secrets : violence within the family -- Dirty little secrets : the sexual abuse of children -- Violence without force : the case of pornography -- Women and crime -- Women in the hands of an angry law -- Women in the legal profession -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 8. Conclusion : from patriarchy toward equality -- Power and patriarchy : a recapitulation -- From patriarchy toward equality -- The future of sexual equality -- Feminist bashing : the power of backlash -- Utopian and dystopian visions -- The problem that won't go away -- Equality and the law -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-362) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Presents a study of the legal status of women, focusing on the years since 1933, discussing constitutional law, paid work and the home, reproductive freedom, education and barriers, and women as actors and subjects in the legal system.".
- catalog extent "x, 388 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Women in American law.".
- catalog identifier "0841914311 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0841914338 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women in American law.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Holmes & Meier,".
- catalog relation "Women in American law.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "346.7301/34 21".
- catalog subject "KF478 .B34 2002".
- catalog subject "Women Legal status, laws, etc. United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction : women and the law -- Suggested reading -- 2. Women and the Constitution -- The historical background -- 1937 : the battle of the New Deal -- The slough of patriarchy : 1937-1971 -- The Warren court and the rights revolution -- Tiers and a "mezzanine" : the Burger court years -- Intermediate scrutiny : judging the justification -- The rights of unwed fathers, if they have any -- What are all these men doing here? -- The VMI case -- When is discrimination not discrimination -- Separate but equal -- The constitutional mini-revolution -- The Equal Rights Amendment -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 3. Women and employment -- Equal pay and comparable worth -- Equal opportunity and sex discrimination -- Title VII and protective legislation -- "Sex plus" discrimination, redefined -- Sexual harassment -- Indirect discrimination and facially neutral rules -- Indirection and subjectivity -- Affirmative action : past and future -- The worker as mother, actual or potential -- Conclusion : one cheer for a paycheck -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Women's intimate lives : beyond the patriarchal family -- Preserving family values -- Law, society, and the family -- From divorce to dissolution -- No-fault divorce and the feminization of poverty -- The government and the former family -- Child custody -- Fathers' rights and adoption -- Death, patriarchy, and the American family -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 5. Women and reproduction -- Where individualism fails : pregnancy and power -- "If we don't own the flesh we stand in" : fertility and freedom -- Infertility by Fiat : compulsory sterilization -- Squelching and squealing : the special case of the young -- The right to motherhood -- Motherhood and the new technology -- Reproductive freedom and the right to privacy -- Abortion and the constitution -- Since Roe : a feminist jurisprudence of reproductive rights -- Whose choice? Whose knowledge? What conditions? When? -- Abortions and public funding -- The future of choice -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Gateways and barriers : education and participation -- The walls crumble down : from the 1930s to the 1970s -- Educational equality and congressional initiative -- Courts, congress, and civil rights -- Women in the educational system -- Women and community life : removing the barriers -- Prioritizing rights : private association and public good -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 7. Practitioners, actors, subjects : women in the legal system -- Rape : a crime of patriarchy -- Dirty little secrets : violence within the family -- Dirty little secrets : the sexual abuse of children -- Violence without force : the case of pornography -- Women and crime -- Women in the hands of an angry law -- Women in the legal profession -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- 8. Conclusion : from patriarchy toward equality -- Power and patriarchy : a recapitulation -- From patriarchy toward equality -- The future of sexual equality -- Feminist bashing : the power of backlash -- Utopian and dystopian visions -- The problem that won't go away -- Equality and the law -- Suggested reading.".
- catalog title "Women in American law : the struggle toward equality from the New Deal to the present / Judith A. Baer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".