Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This extensive revision provides timely coverage of feminist litigation/legislation and feminist legal theory so your students can help women clients address today's exploding gender law issues. The book begins with a chapter on constitutional history and doctrine and moves to employment discrimination, reproduction, family, rape, pornography, and prostitution. To place issues in context, each chapter interweaves: the statutes, regulations, and court decisions of the law in question; a comprehensive selection of excerpts from the writings of many feminist legal theorists; extensive historical background; important interdisciplinary material from sociology, psychology, and economics; discussions of the similarities and dissimilarities of women of different races, ethnicities, classes, and sexual orientation; and litigative and legislative strategies. Major changes in the Second Edition include: