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Women and the United States constitution: history, interpretation, and practice

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Nearly all the essays in this volume, moreover, attempt to locate both the weakness and the strengths of our constitutional tradition in light of the possibility of future feminist practice: not only for a better understanding of how women might gain greater political control over their own lives but also of how their growing participation in law and government might effect and even redirect future constitutional practice itself. Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts―History, Interpretation, and Practice―this book views the Constitution as a living document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns.
Feminism lacks both a constitutional theory as well as a clearly defined theory of political legitimacy within the framework of democracy. The scholars included here take significant and crucial steps toward these theories. In addition to constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination, basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S. Constitution explores other issues of central concern to contemporary women―areas that, strictly speaking, are not yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective of their potentially transformative role in the future development of constitutional law.

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New York : Columbia University Press., 2003

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xiv, 396p. ; 28cm.

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English

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0231128924

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Perempuan
Feminisme
Hukum
Feminis
Amerika Serikat
united states constitution

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