The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaSphinxLegal, 2004 - 788 páginas Chicago-based writer, artist, and civil rights attorney Rowland covers the period from the 1600's to the early 1900s in the first section, then examines developments in the 20th century in a long second section. Final sections look at the politics of female adolescence and violence and women, mainly as contemporary issues but with some historical c |
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... Action Lover's Perjuries: Intimate Contagions and Their Force on the Law The AIDS Issue: An Offense of a Different Color American Women and HIV: Facing the Epidemic—Changing the Law The Limitations of HAART: Resentment and a Backlash ...
... Action Lover's Perjuries: Intimate Contagions and Their Force on the Law The AIDS Issue: An Offense of a Different Color American Women and HIV: Facing the Epidemic—Changing the Law The Limitations of HAART: Resentment and a Backlash ...
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... action arguments.Women,opponents said,were not as “strong”or as “smart” as men.And they certainly did not have a head for business.Thus,they had no business doing the jobs of men.Women should be home taking care of the children. Not ...
... action arguments.Women,opponents said,were not as “strong”or as “smart” as men.And they certainly did not have a head for business.Thus,they had no business doing the jobs of men.Women should be home taking care of the children. Not ...
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... Action League, which noted in a fact sheet that “[t]he landmark of John Ashcroft's long public career has been his dedication to taking away women's constitutional rights. He has pressed litigation and legislation seeking to curtail ...
... Action League, which noted in a fact sheet that “[t]he landmark of John Ashcroft's long public career has been his dedication to taking away women's constitutional rights. He has pressed litigation and legislation seeking to curtail ...
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... action, there was nothing women could do.) 151 Id.at 163. 152 Id. 153 See Pair, supra note 80, at p. 76. 154 Id. 155 For review of the language of the Fourteenth Amendment, see supra note 143. 156 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) at 170. 157 Id. 158 ...
... action, there was nothing women could do.) 151 Id.at 163. 152 Id. 153 See Pair, supra note 80, at p. 76. 154 Id. 155 For review of the language of the Fourteenth Amendment, see supra note 143. 156 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) at 170. 157 Id. 158 ...
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Contenido
Twentieth Century Developments | 65 |
The Politics of Female Adolescence | 509 |
Violence and Women | 591 |
Epilogue | 751 |
Index | 759 |
About the Author | 789 |
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Página 101 - Yet the marital couple is not an independent entity with a mind and heart of its own, but an association of two individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup. // the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
Página 26 - But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Página 176 - Columbia, such person shall be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay ; (B) if such position was in the employ of a private employer, such employer shall restore such person to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so...
Página 54 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious.
Página 172 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Página 169 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Página 243 - employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does not include (1) the United States, a corporation wholly owned by the Government of the United States, an Indian tribe, or...
Página 172 - ... (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Página 55 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Página 23 - Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood.