...pedestal, but in a cage. . . .Throughout ir.uch of the 19th Century the position of women in our society was, in many respects comparable to that of Blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.... _59' Eg , most sexual classifications have not grown out the sense of acrimony that gave rise to many...

...(1873); In re Lockwood, 154 US 1 16 (1894). 178 Minor v. Happersett, 2 1 Wall. (88 US) 162 (1874). pre-Civil War slave codes. Neither slaves nor women...to serve as legal guardians of their own children. I7g Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment may have led the Justices to assume that issues of women's...

...concurring opinion in Craig v. Boren as the wrong approach to thinking about sex classifications (212). 15. "Neither slaves nor women could hold office, serve...to serve as legal guardians of their own children" (Frontiero, 685). This text draws closely from the Ginsburg brief. 16. The quote is from Royster Guano...

...imposed on women this way: [Throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks...property or to serve as legal guardians of their own children.4 In 1873 a member of the Supreme Court proclaimed: "Man is, or should be, woman's protector...

...between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.... And although blacks were guaranteed the right to vote in 1870, women were denied even that right —...