On Account of Sex
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3343-2 (ISBN)
Before she became the “Notorious R.B.G.” famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gender equality before the high court in the 1970s. Beginning with Reed v. Reed (1971)—for which Ginsburg wrote her first full Supreme Court brief, and which was the first time the Court held a sex-based classification to be unconstitutional—Ginsburg became known for her work on the issue of gender equality. For Ginsburg, this was not merely a matter of women’s rights, because inequality harms men as well. Several of the cases she argued concerned gender equality for men, beginning with Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Review (1972). Ginsburg established the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972 and coedited the first law school casebook on sex discrimination as a professor at Columbia Law School. During the rest of the decade, until President Carter appointed her for the US Court of Appeals in 1980, she litigated cases that further developed gender equality jurisprudence on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Drawing on interviews with RBG herself and those who knew her, as well as extensive knowledge of the cases themselves, Philippa Strum has provided a legal history of Ginsburg's landmark litigation on behalf of women’s rights and gender equality. Those cases changed the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and, along with two Supreme Court cases of the 1980s and 1990s (Mississippi v. Hogan and U.S. v. Virginia), remain the foundation of constitutional gender jurisprudence today. On Account of Sex shows why RBG became the rock star of the legal world and gives readers an accessible guide to these widely forgotten but momentous decisions.
Philippa Strum is senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, and professor emerita, City University of New York. Her many books include Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography, and, from Kansas, Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law, Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights, When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate, Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism, and Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights.
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. The Pedestal and the Cage
3. "All We Ask of Our Brethren Is That They Take Their Feet Off Our Necks"
4. A big Win, A Big Loss, and a Society in Transition
5. The Kidnapper, the Lieutenant, and the Widower
6. The Court Grapples with Pregnancy
7. Thirsty Boys and Uncertain Justices
8. "From No Rights to Half Rights to Confusing Rights"
Epilogue
Chronology
Cases Cited
Bibliographic Essay
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Kansas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7006-3343-X / 070063343X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7006-3343-2 / 9780700633432 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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