On account of sex : Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making of gender equality law / Philippa Strum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strum, Philippa, author.

Series:

Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series

Landmark law cases and American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women lawyers.

Women judges.

Women lawyers--United States--Biography.

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020--Influence.

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022]

Summary:

"Before she became the "Notorious R.B.G." famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gender equality before the high court in the 1970s. Beginning with Reed v. Reed (1971)-for which Ginsburg wrote her first full Supreme Court brief, and which was the first time the Court held a sex-based classification to be unconstitutional-Ginsburg became known for her work on the issue of gender equality. For Ginsburg, this was not merely a matter of women's rights, because inequality harms men as well. Several of the cases she argued concerned gender equality for men, beginning with Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Review (1972). Ginsburg established the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972 and also coedited the first law school casebook on sex discrimination as a professor at Columbia Law School. During the rest of the decade, until President Carter appointed her for the US Court of Appeals in 1980, she litigated cases that further developed gender equality jurisprudence on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Beginnings

The pedestal and the cage

"All we ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks."

A big win, a big loss, and a society in transition

The kidnapper, the lieutenant, and the widower

The court grapples with pregnancy

Thirsty boys and uncertain justices

"From no rights, to half rights, to confusing rights".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700633449

0700633448

OCLC:

1344187423