Schwarzenbach / Smith Women and the U.S. Constitution

History, Interpretation, and Practice
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50296-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarzenbach, Sibyl

Schwarzenbach, Sibyl A.

Smith, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: History
Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship, by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
Part II: Interpretation:
The Founding Period
Part III. Practice
Representation of Women in the Constitution, by Jan Lewis
Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic, by Norma Basch
Who Are We Kidding? It Was All About Property Stupid: Notes on Basch and Lewis, by Carol Berkin
Reconstruction
Davis Women, Bondage and the Reconstructed Constitution, by Peggy Cooper
The Unkept Promise of the 13th Amendment: A Call forReparations, by Adjoa Aiyetoro
Women and the Welfare State
The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy, by Francis Fox Piven
The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty, by Patricia Smith
The US Constitution in Comparative Context
Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution, by Judith Resnik
What's Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique, by Martha Nussbaum
Women's Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue, by Carol Gould
Privacy and Family Law
Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy and Equality, by Elizabeth Schneider
Infringements of Women's Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion, by Lucinda Peach
What Place for Family Privacy?, by Martha Fineman
The Right of Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition, by David Richards
Women and Work
The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment, by Eileen Boris
Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach, by Susan Sturm
Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited, by Joan Williams
Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment
Women and Citizenship: the Virginia Military Institute Case, by Philippa Strum
Heightened Scrutiny: An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women, by Cynthia Harrison
Whatever Happened to the ERA?, by Jane Mansbridge

Über Autor(innen)

Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach is associate professor of philosophy at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of On Civic Friendship (forthcoming) as well as of numerous articles in social, political, and feminist theory. Patricia Smith is professor of philosophy at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of Liberalism and Affirmative Obligation and the editor of numerous volumes including Feminist Jurisprudence.