| Description |
369 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The rebirth of race-sex analogies -- "Women and minorities" -- Recession, reaction, retrenchment -- Reasoning from sex -- Lost intersections -- The late civil rights era. |
| Summary |
"Informed in 1944 that she was 'not of the sex' entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called 'Jane Crow.' In the 1960s and 1970s, the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by Murray became potent weapons in the battle for women's rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri's Reasoning from Race is the first book to explore the development and consequences of this key feminist strategy. Mayeri uncovers the history of an often misunderstood connection at the heart of American antidiscrimination law. Her study details how a tumultuous political and legal climate transformed the links between race and sex equality, civil rights and feminism. Battles over employment discrimination, school segregation, reproductive freedom, affirmative action, and constitutional change reveal the promise and peril of reasoning from race--and offer a vivid picture of Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and others who defined feminists' agenda. Looking beneath the surface of Supreme Court opinions to the deliberations of feminist advocates, their opponents, and the legal decisionmakers who heard--or chose not to hear--their claims, Reasoning from Race showcases previously hidden struggles that continue to shape the scope and meaning of equality under the law"--Publisher description. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women's rights -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Women's rights. |
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Philosophy. |
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Feminist jurisprudence -- United States.
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Feminist jurisprudence. |
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States.
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Civil rights movements. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Constitutional law -- United States -- Methodology.
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Constitutional law. |
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Methodology. |
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Feminist theory -- United States.
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Feminist theory. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminist theory. |
| ISBN |
9780674047594 alkaline paper |
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0674047591 alkaline paper |
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