Authors: Karen Maschke
ISBN-13: 9780815325161, ISBN-10: 0815325169
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Multidisciplinary focus
Surveying many disciplines, this anthology brings together an outstanding selection of scholarly articles that examine the profound impact of law on the lives of women in the United States. The themes addressed include the historical, political, and social contexts of legal issues that have affected women's struggles to obtain equal treatment under the law. The articles are drawn from journals in law, political science, history, women's studies, philosophy, and education and represent some of the most interesting writing on the subject.
The law in theory and practice
Many of the articles bring race, social, and economic factors into their analyses, observing, for example, that black women, poor women, and single mothers are treated by the wielders of the power of the law differently than middle class white women. Other topics covered include the evolution of women's legal status, reproduction rights, sexuality and family issues, equal employment and educational opportunities, domestic violence, pornography and sexual exploitation, hate speech, and feminist legal thought. A valuable research and classroom aid, this series provides in-depth coverage of specific legal issues and takes into account the major legal changes and policies that have had an impact on the lives of American women.
Series Introduction | ||
Volume Introduction | ||
Who Gets the Child? Custody, Guardianship, and the Rise of a Judicial Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century America | 1 | |
Lesbian Mothers II: Long Night's Journey Into Day | 27 | |
Women as Fathers: Motherhood and Child Care Under a Modified Patriarchy | 55 | |
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services: Devaluing the Right to Choose | 71 | |
Images of Mothers in Poverty Discourses | 90 | |
Reproductive Freedoms and African American Women | 113 | |
Reproductive Technologies and the U. S. Courts | 150 | |
Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy | 175 | |
Keeping Abortion Clinics Open: The Importance of Ragsdale v. Turnock in the Post-Casey Era | 211 | |
The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and Mandating Norplant for Women on Welfare Discourse | 227 | |
Communitarianism and Feminism: The Case Against the Preference for the Two-Parent Family | 251 | |
The Norplant Solution: Norplant and the Control of African-American Motherhood | 277 | |
"Employable Mothers" and "Suitable Work": A Re-Evaluation of Welfare and Wage-Earning for Women in the Twentieth-Century United States | 321 | |
Fathers' Rights, Mothers' Wrongs? Reflections on Unwed Fathers' Rights and Sex Equality | 344 | |
Acknowledgments | 375 |