| Justice and Gender: Sex Discrimination and the Law Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rhode, Deborah L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674491017 ISBN-13: 9780674491014 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1991 Annotation: 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 women's 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 possibility-or impossibility-of using law as a tool of social change. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History - Law | Civil Procedure |
| Dewey: 347.73 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.15" W x 9.25" (1.24 lbs) 440 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 women's 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 possibility--or impossibility--of using law as a tool of social change. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rhode, Deborah L.: - Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University.Rhode, Deborah L.: - Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. |