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Justice and gender : sex discrimination and the law / Deborah L. Rhode

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Rhode, Deborah L.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
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1 online resource (vii, 428 pages)
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English.
Contents
Natural rights and natural roles -- The fragmentation of feminism and the legalization of difference -- Feminist challenges and legal responses -- The Equal Rights campaign -- The evolution of discrimination doctrine -- False dichotomies -- Competing perspectives on family policy -- Equality in form and equality in fact : women and work -- Reproductive freedom -- Sex and violence -- Association and assimilation -- Conclusion: Principles and priorities.
Summary
Provides an investigation of gender and the law in the United States. The author describes legal developments over the past two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments.
This provides an investigation of gender and the law in the United States. The author describes legal developments over the past two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments.;She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence, and in turn are influenced by, legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibility - or impossibility - of using law as a tool of social change.
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ISBN
9780674042674 (electronic bk.)
0674042670 (electronic bk.)
0674491017
9780674491014
0674491009 (alk. paper)
9780674491007 (alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-416) and index.
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