Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction. Law, History, and Feminism 1
6. Part I. Contradictions in Legalizing Gender
7. 1. Courts and Temperance “Ladies” 33
8. 2. Women behind the Wheel 52
9. 3. Expatriation by Marriage 68
10. 4. Made with Men in Mind 84
11. 5. Fighting Women 100
12. 6. Irrational Women 118
13. Part II. Women’s Transformation of the Law
14. 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender 139
15. 8. “Them Law Wimmin” 156
16. 9. Legal Aid, Women Lay Lawyers, and the Rewriting of History, 1863-1930 173
17. 10. Sisterhood of Struggle 189
18. 11. “Feminizing” Courts 206
19. 12. Sexual Harassment 223
20. 13. Ledbetter’s Continuum 240
21. Selected Bibliography 257
22. Contributors 261
23. Index 265