11. Women’s Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1. Women and Constitutional Interpretation: The Forgotten Value of Civic Friendship 1
6. Part 1: History
7. The Founding Period
8. 2. Representation of Women in the Constitution 23
9. 3. Declarations of Independence: Women and Divorce in the Early Republic 34
10. 4. The Explanation Lies in Property: Gender and Its Connection to Economic Considerations 45
11. Reconstruction
12. 5. Women, Bondage, and the Reconstructed Constitution 53
13. 6. The Unkept Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment: A Call for Reparations 70
14. Women and the Welfare State
15. 7. The Culture of Work Enforcement: Race, Gender and U.S. Welfare Policy 93
16. 8. The Silent Constitution: Affirmative Obligation and the Feminization of Poverty 108
17. Part 2: Interpretation
18. The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Context
19. 9. Federalism(s), Feminism, Families, and the Constitution 127
20. 10. What’s Privacy Got to Do With It? A Comparative Approach to the Feminist Critique 153
21. 11. Women’s Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue 176
22. Privacy and Family Law
23. 12. Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy, and Equality 197
24. 13. Infringements of Women’s Constitutional Rights in Religious Lawmaking on Abortion 221
25. 14. What Place for Family Privacy? 236
26. 15. The Right to Privacy and Gay/Lesbian Sexuality: Beyond Decriminalization to Equal Recognition 255
27. Women and Work
28. 16. The Gender of Discrimination: Race, Sex, and Fair Employment 273
29. 17. Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach 292
30. 18. Our Economy of Mothers and Others: Women and Economics Revisited 314
31. Part 3: Practice
32. Citizenship and the Equal Rights Amendment
33. 19. Women and Citizenship: The Virginia Military Institute Case 335
34. 20. “Heightened Scrutiny”: An Alternative Route to Constitutional Equality for U.S. Women 347
35. 21. Whatever Happened to the ERA? 365
36. About the Contributors 379
37. Index 385