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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhode, Deborah L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sex discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Sex discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction PART ONE: Historical Frameworks

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-416) and index.

ISBN:

9780674042674

0674042670

OCLC:

923110356