The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social ChangeUsing a wide variety of cases involving women's rights, Leslie Friedman Goldstein examines the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court initiates and responds to social change. This edition covers all major Supreme Court decisions that affect gender equity and reproductive rights through May 1987. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictGoldstein provides a legal casebook examining women's constitutional rights as determined by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. This revised and updated edition of her 1979 work contains cases through the ... Read full review
Contents
Early Interpretations of Due Process | 3 |
Substantive Due Process 1 | 19 |
18681975 | 66 |
Sex as a Semisuspect Classification 1 | 109 |
Gender and More Rigid Scrutiny | 165 |
Revolutionizing Marriage | 232 |
The Military | 249 |
Rape | 267 |
Contraception | 310 |
Congressional Enforcement of Equal Protection | 498 |
Note on Comparable Worth | 537 |
Epilogue | 585 |
Timetable of Womens Rights Cases | 601 |
How the Supreme Court Operates | 613 |
Postscript 1989 | 631 |
| 637 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change |
| Author | Leslie Friedman Goldstein |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0299112446, 9780299112448 |
| Length | 637 pages |
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