Justice And Gender Sex Discrimination And The Law [Paperback]

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in womens activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibilityor impossibilityof using law as a tool of social change.The definitive treatment of the American legal systems struggle to deal with issues pertaining to gender& The strength of Rhodes analysis, however, is not its historical aspect but its probing view of modern gender issues& The focus is always on the deeper forces that have led to gender disadvantage& There is much to be learned from reading this volume.Encyclopedic& Thorough, carefully nuanced& [Rhode] gives all sides their fair due on every issue she takes up& A valuable resource for many years to come.Rhodes tough-minded consideration of justice and gender is clearly the product of a keen intellecta human rather than gendered capacity& A model for theorists and policy makers alike.A comprehensive journey through the history of law and gender& The book is important in a number of ways& [It] paints in stark, irrefutable colors the irrational prejudices that have served to justify legal determinations limiting equality& [I]t has the audacity to ask the law to turn on itself and work more justly.Rhodes work is impressive in its scholarship and its range&a compelling account.Justice and Genderbreaks the impasse created by legal and theoretical debates over sameness and difference. Deborah Rhodes brilliant analysis of gender and the law in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present argues persuasively for theories rooted in careful contextual analysis and for a legal emphasis on gender disadvantage ratherl#Q