Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Women and the U.S. Constitution : History, Interpretation, and Practice / ed. by Patricia Smith, Sibyl Schwarzenbach.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780231128933
  • 9780231502962
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.73
LOC classification:
  • KF353
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship -- Part 1: History -- The Founding Period -- 2. Representation of Women in the Constitution -- 3. Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic -- 4. The Explanation Lies in Property: Gender and Its Connection to Economic Considerations -- Reconstruction -- 5. Women, Bondage, and the Reconstructed Constitution -- 6. The Unkept Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment: A Call for Reparations -- Women and the Welfare State -- 7. The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy -- 8. The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty -- Part 2: Interpretation -- The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Context -- 9. Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution -- 10. What's Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique -- 11. Women's Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue -- Privacy and Family Law -- 12. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy, and Equality -- 13. Infringements of Women's Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion -- 14. What Place for Family Privacy? -- 15. The Right to Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition -- Women and Work -- 16. The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment -- 17. Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach -- 18. Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited -- Part 3: Practice -- Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment -- 19. Women and Citizenship: The Virginia Military Institute Case -- 20. "Heightened Scrutiny": An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women -- 21. Whatever Happened to the ERA? -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this book views the Constitution as a living document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns. Feminism lacks both a constitutional theory as well as a clearly defined theory of political legitimacy within the framework of democracy. The scholars included here take significant and crucial steps toward these theories. In addition to constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination, basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S. Constitution explores other issues of central concern to contemporary women-areas that, strictly speaking, are not yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective of their potentially transformative role in the future development of constitutional law.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231502962

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship -- Part 1: History -- The Founding Period -- 2. Representation of Women in the Constitution -- 3. Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic -- 4. The Explanation Lies in Property: Gender and Its Connection to Economic Considerations -- Reconstruction -- 5. Women, Bondage, and the Reconstructed Constitution -- 6. The Unkept Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment: A Call for Reparations -- Women and the Welfare State -- 7. The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy -- 8. The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty -- Part 2: Interpretation -- The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Context -- 9. Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution -- 10. What's Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique -- 11. Women's Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue -- Privacy and Family Law -- 12. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy, and Equality -- 13. Infringements of Women's Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion -- 14. What Place for Family Privacy? -- 15. The Right to Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition -- Women and Work -- 16. The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment -- 17. Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach -- 18. Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited -- Part 3: Practice -- Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment -- 19. Women and Citizenship: The Virginia Military Institute Case -- 20. "Heightened Scrutiny": An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women -- 21. Whatever Happened to the ERA? -- About the Contributors -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this book views the Constitution as a living document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns. Feminism lacks both a constitutional theory as well as a clearly defined theory of political legitimacy within the framework of democracy. The scholars included here take significant and crucial steps toward these theories. In addition to constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination, basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S. Constitution explores other issues of central concern to contemporary women-areas that, strictly speaking, are not yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective of their potentially transformative role in the future development of constitutional law.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)