The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 637 pages

Using 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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Contents

Early Interpretations of Due Process
3
Substantive Due Process
19
18681975
66
the Streets
83
Sex as a Semisuspect Classification
109
Gender and More Rigid Scrutiny
165
Webster 1977
192
Revolutionizing Marriage
232
Women Procreation and the Right of Privacy
298
3
348
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

The Military
249
Rape
267

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