Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women

In this widely acclaimed landmark study, Joan Hoff illustrates how women remain second- class citizens under the current legal system and questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual rights is really what will most improve conditions for women in America as they prepare for the twenty-first century. Concluding that equality based on liberal male ideology is no longer an adequate framework for improving women's legal status, Hoff's highly original and incisive volume calls for a demystification of legal doctrine and a reinterpretation of legal texts (including the Constitution) to create a feminist jurisprudence.

Author: Joan Hoff
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 580
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.97w x 1.43d
ISBN: 9780814735091

About the Author
Hoff, Joan: - Joan Hoff is Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, former Executive Secretary of the Organization of American Historians, and coeditor of the international Journal of Women's History.