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Women's Rights and the Law »
Authors: Laura Otten
ISBN-13: 9780275931858, ISBN-10: 0275931854
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: December 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Laura Otten
LAURA A. OTTEN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Women's Studies at LaSalle University.
Book Synopsis
Beginning with colonial times and moving to the present, Otten examines women's struggle for social, economic, political, and civic equality, using key Supreme Court decisions as the basis for chronicling the changing position of women in American society.
Table of Contents
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | The Law, the Constitution, and the U.S. Supreme Court | 8 |
| Ch. 3 | Women and Men, Girls and Boys: Separate and Equal? | 16 |
| Ch. 4 | No Women Allowed: The Early History | 35 |
| Ch. 5 | The Writing on the Wall: No Constitutional Protections for Women | 55 |
| Ch. 6 | The Dawning of Enlightenment | 80 |
| Ch. 7 | The Dawning Continues | 97 |
| Ch. 8 | Biology versus the Law | 110 |
| Ch. 9 | The Bumpy Road to the Present: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward | 129 |
| Ch. 10 | The Seesaw Continues | 172 |
| Ch. 11 | The End of the Line | 202 |
| Ch. 12 | Conclusion | 231 |
| Bibliography and Suggested Readings | 235 | |
| Index | 242 |
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