Women and the Law Stories

Edited By ELIZABETH M. SCHNEIDER & STEPHANIE M. WILDMAN

Foundation Press | Thomson Reuters (2011)

This book examines landmark cases establishing women’s legal rights. Each chapter discusses a case and examines the litigants, history, parties, strategies, and theoretical implications. Subject areas covered are common to many women and law casebooks, including history, constitutional law, reproductive freedom, the workplace, the family, and women in the legal profession, domestic violence, and rape.

The book can be used as a supplement to any law school course, as a text for courses in gender and law and feminist jurisprudence, and could also serve as an undergraduate or graduate textbook in women’s studies or in other interdisciplinary fields. See the Table of Contents and Contributors (below); click on any chapter for more information about that chapter and teaching aids.

Meet the Editors

Elizabeth M. Schneider

Elizabeth M. Schneider is the Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and has also been Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools.

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Elizabeth M. Schneider

Stephanie M. Wildman

Stephanie M. Wildman is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University School of Law.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

HIDDEN HISTORIES: THE ROLE OF GENDER

DEVELOPING A CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE TO COMBAT SEX DISCRIMINATION AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY

REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

THE WORKPLACE

FAMILY LAW

WOMEN IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION: LAW STUDENTS, ATTORNEYS, LAW PROFESSORS, AND JUDGES

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