Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Women Seek Constitutional Equality
Women and U.S. Law Before the Fourteenth Amendment
The Privileges or Immunities Clause: The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Access to the Bar: Myra Bradwell v. State of Illinois (1873)
Women's Suffrage and the Fourteenth Amendment Debates
Women and Modern Citizenship, Part One:
The Vote by Constitutional Amendment
Liberty of Contract: Lochner v. New York (1905)
Protecting Women by Limiting Their Freedom: Radice v. New York (1924)
Capitulation on Minimum Wages for Women: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) and U.S. v. Darby (1941)
Equal Protection Clause
Chapter 2: Women Attain (?) Constitutional Equality
Almost Strict Scrutiny
Court Bides Its Time
Officially Intermediate Scrutiny: Craig v. Boren (1976)
Sex Discrimination Post-Craig Statutory Rape: Michael M. v. Sonoma County (1981)
Women and Modern Citizenship, Part Two
Jury Service
Interlude: Doctrinal Development on the Clinton Court
Conferring Citizenship: Female Versus Male Parents
When Is Discrimination Not Discrimination?
Rights in Conflict
Chapter 3: Women and Employment
Equal Pay and Comparable Worth
Comparable Worth: Washington County v. Gunther (1981)
Title VII and Women's Labor Legislation
'Sex Plus' Discrimination
Sexual Harassment as Sex Discrimination
Gender Stereotyping: Price-Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989)
Affirmative Action: Johnson v. Transportation Agency (1987)
Chapter 4: Gender and Family Law
Same-Sex Marriage: Kowalski Cases
Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions: Baker v. State (1999)
Legal History of Marriage
The Traditional Family
Divorce
Rights of Unmarried Fathers
Parents versus Grandparents
Parents' Rights Versus Community Rights: Native Americans and Family Law
Chapter 5: Women and Reproduction
Legal Contexts: Implied Constitutional Rights
Sterilization
Contraception and the Right to Privacy
Legalizing Abortion
Securing Access to Abortion
Pregnant Women's Privacy
Reproductive Technology and the Law
Whose Property Are Frozen Embryos?
Posthumous Procreation: Woodward v. Commissioner of Social Security (2002)
Chapter 6: Women and Education
Single-Sex Public Schools: Separate but Equal?
Higher Education
Title IX and Educational Equality
Title IX and Sexual Harassment
Title IX and Retaliation
Chapter 7: Women and Crime
Spouse Abuse
Rape
Feminists Divide Over Pornography
The Violence Against Women Act
Prostitution
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Notes

Reviews

"Two of our nation's most distinguished constitutional scholars have superbly integrated history, court structure, and judicial politics with case law and commentary. This book is so well-written and approachable, scholarly, and complete in the range and depth of its discussion of the hot-button constitutional issues facing women (constitutional equality, employment and family law, reproductive freedom, education, and crime) that I plan to use it in my
courses."--Ron Kahn, Oberlin College
"Two of our nation's most distinguished constitutional scholars have superbly integrated history, court structure, and judicial politics with case law and commentary. This book is so well-written and approachable, scholarly, and complete in the range and depth of its discussion of the hot-button constitutional issues facing women (constitutional equality, employment and family law, reproductive freedom, education, and crime) that I plan to use it in my
courses."--Ron Kahn, Oberlin College