Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice, and Theory (Law School Casebook Series)

Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice, and Theory, Second Edition, provides coverage o feminist litigation/legislation and feminist legal theory so students can fully understand gender law issues. The book begins with a chapter on constitutional history and doctrine and moves to employment discrimination, reproduction, family law, 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 similiarities and dissimilarities of women of different races, ethnicities, classes, and sexual orientation

litigative and legislative strategies

the addition of major feminist theoretical work