Contents:
Preface;
Copyright acknowledgements and reprint permissions;
Table of cases;
Chapter 1. The historical background of feminist legal theory;
A. The woman movement : 1840-1870 ;
B. The suffrage movement : 1870-1920 ;
C. Feminism after the Nineteenth Amendment ;
Chapter 2. Constitutional "equality";
A. Historical introduction ;
B. The development of a constitutional standard for sex equality ;
C. The standard in action ;
D. Back towards strict scrutiny? ;
E. Twentieth century equal-protection sex-discrimination cases, 1971-2000 ;
F. Judicial review;
Chapter 3. Feminist theory;
A. Introduction;
B. Feminist methodology ;
C. Difference in the Eighties ;
D. Theoretical approaches to (in)equality;
Chapter 4. The construction of female sexuality;
A. Sexuality and subordination ;
B. Other difficulties negotiating pleasure under patriarchy;
Chapter 5. Violence against women;
A. Introduction;
B. Rape ;
C. Child sex abuse ;
D. Domestic violence ;
E. Prostitution ;
F. Pornography;
Chapter 6. Women and reproduction;
A. Introduction;
B. Birth control and sterilization ;
C. Abortion ;
D. "Cocaine babies" and the "pregnancy police" ;
E. Who controls childbirth? ;
F. "Surrogate" motherhood ;
G. Reproductive technology : boon or bane for women?;
Chapter 7. Law, women, and intimate relationships;
A. Introduction;
B. Marriage, power and well being ;
C. The economic consequences of dissolving an intimate relationship ;
D. Suggestions for change in the legal treatment of intimate relationships ;
E. The legal treatment of cohabitation ;
F. Same-sex marriage;
Chapter 8. Women and children;
A. Introduction;
B. Mothering ;
C. Maternity leave : good or bad for women? ;
D. Child care ;
E. Custody ;
F. Lesbian and gay parents ;
G. Child support;
Chapter 9. Women and education;
A. Introduction;
B. Single-sex educational institutions ;
C. Standardized testing ;
D. Affirmative action ;
E. Athletic programs ;
F. Sexual harassment ;
G. Hate speech regulation;
Chapter 10. Women and wage labor;
A. Introduction;
B. Mothers in the workplace ;
C. Sexual harassment ;
D. Sexuality, stereotyping, femininity, and professional appearance ;
E. The intersection of race and sex ;
F. Summary judgment and Title VII ;
G. Comparable worth;
Chapter 11. Women and the legal profession;
A. Introduction;
B. Women and legal education ;
C. Bias against women as attorneys ;
D. Lawyering in a different voice?;
Chapter 12. Women and the state;
A. Introduction;
B. Care and equality ;
C. Political equality in the United States ;
D. Global feminism and equality ;
E. A politics of equality;
Index.