Women and the Law: Stories

This book examines landmark cases establishing womens legal rights offering accounts of the litigants history parties strategies and theoretical implications. It will enrich any law school course and can serve as a text for a course on women and the law gender and law feminist jurisprudence or womens studies. This volume utilizes subject areas common to many women and law casebooks: history constitutional law reproductive freedom the workplace the family and women in the legal profession. Several chapters explore issues of domestic violence and rape.