We the men : how forgetting women's struggles for equality perpetuates inequality / Jill Elaine Hasday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasday, Jill Elaine, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.

Women.

Sex discrimination against women--United States--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for 'We the People,' too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only 'We the Men'. A long line of judges, politicians, and other influential scene setters have ignored women's struggles for equality or distorted them beyond recognition by wildly exaggerating American progress. Even as sexism continues to warp constitutional law, political decision making, and everyday life, powerful Americans have spent more than a century proclaiming that the United States has already left sex discrimination behind. Jill Elaine Hasday's 'We the Men' explores how forgetting women's struggles for equality - and forgetting the work America still has to do - perpetuates injustice, promotes complacency, and denies how generations of women have had to come together to fight for reform and against regression.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction Forgotten Women

Part I. Erasure

1 Courts Ignore Women's Struggles for Equality

2 Remembering America Without Remembering Women

Part II. Distortion

3 Courts Declare Victory Early and Often

4 Popular Culture Announces Women's Emancipation

Part III. Consequences

5 Courts Protect and Perpetuate Inequality

6 Anti-Feminists Capitalize on America's Misremembered Past

Part IV. Hope

7 Building on the Past to Create a More Equal Future

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197800836

0197800831

9780197800812

0197800815

OCLC:

1483079753