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Book Review - Supreme Court Decisions and Women’S Rights: Milestones to Equality (2Nd Ed., C Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University University Library Faculty Publications Georgia State University Library 4-1-2011 Book Review - Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s Rights: Milestones to Equality (2nd ed., C. Cushman (Ed.), Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011) Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Georgia State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Swygart-Hobaugh, A. J. (2011). Review of the book Supreme Court decisions and women’s rights: Milestones to equality (2nd ed.), (C. Cushman (Ed.), Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011). Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, 32(2), 31-32. This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Georgia State University Library at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Library Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. New Reference Works tious and we’re the first to get Perhaps the set’s greatest strength Clare Cushman, ed., SUPREME fired and what we look like is that it organizes and gathers into a COURT DECISIONS AND WOM- is more important than what coherent whole the extensive global EN’S RIGHTS: MILESTONES TO we do… And for lots of other literature on feminism produced over EQUALITY, SECOND EDITION, reasons we are part of the roughly the last decade. And yet it goes fwd. by Assoc. Justice Ruth Bader women’s liberation movement. beyond being a bibliography (as which Ginsburg; spons. by Sup. Ct. Hist. (vol. I, p. ix) it could also serve) to create a context Soc. Washington, DC: CQ Press/Sage, for and a summary of the findings in 2010. 351p. bibl. index. $65.00, ISBN In three volumes totaling some that literature. Future editions could 978-1608714063; pap., $55.00, ISBN 862 pages, Michele Paludi has drawn be strengthened by overall subject and 978-1608714070. together an encyclopedic body of contributor indexes, but this is not a research, analysis, and finely drawn serious flaw. Reviewed by Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh conclusions to paint a remarkably Michele Paludi has created a trio detailed picture of the place and of well-documented texts in clear At the 1848 Woman’s Rights Con- circumstance of women in the world and direct language, suitable for any vention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, today. Although the title includes the broad treatment of feminism, and, “The history of mankind is a history of term ”feminism,” which can imply by extension, for women’s studies at repeated injuries and usurpations on women having a degree of freedom and the college and university level. This the part of man toward woman, having power, this work shows not just the resource would also be suitable for in direct object the establishment of an opportunities but also the limitations advanced high-school classes. Each absolute tyranny over her.” She then and challenges women face globally, volume has been structured to stand delineated the various laws of the day and it does so with remarkable clarity alone so that it can be acquired as that propagated this tyranny.1 This ref- and, at times, aching honesty. an individual work, which could be erence work enumerates the key U.S. Each volume begins in the same helpful in some settings, but the mod- Supreme Court decisions from the way: a series introduction, acknowl- est price for the set and the carefully 1800s to the present that have eroded edgments, and an introduction to the parallel structure of the volumes are an the legal instruments of tyranny over volume. Each then focuses on a differ- argument for acquiring the complete women. ent central theme; is made up of signed set if at all possible. This is an accessible This revised edition retains the chapters, each with a solid bibliogra- but outstanding reference work, in a organization and largely the same con- phy; and concludes with biographies field where issues are so important and tent as the original 2001 publication, of its own contributors and an index. harm so egregious that such a calm but to which various authors contributed; Each of the first two volumes also has thorough treatment is both rare and new content in this edition is provided an appendix: “Women’s Studies Pro- welcome. solely by the editor, Clare Cushman. grams in the United States” in Volume The work opens with a discussion of I and “Feminist and Women’s Rights [Susan Bennett White is the sociology li- how the notion of “romantic paternal- Organizations Worldwide” in Volume brarian at Princeton University Library, ism,” wherein women were viewed as II. where she provides materials and research inherently vulnerable and thus in need Although many chapters focus support for the program in lesbian, gay, of protection, prescribed the unequal on feminism in the United States, the bisexual and transgender studies. She has treatment of women in the legal arena. “worldwide” promise of the title is been a senior research librarian at Princ- Throughout the remaining chapters on fulfilled in detailed surveys from many eton for more than twenty-five years.] sex discrimination (in jury duty, the countries. Reference is also made to the family, education, the armed forces, work done and standards established the workplace), sexual harassment, by many international organizations and reproductive rights, the presented — information that can otherwise be Supreme Court decisions illustrate the difficult to locate. Of particular note is slow chipping away of this paternalistic Chapter 8 of Volume II, “Prejudice and conception and consequent achieve- Discrimination against Sexual Minori- ments of equality for women under the ties: A Brazilian Perspective.” law. While the work’s title implies that “women’s rights” is of primary concern, Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 31 New Reference Works several cases elucidate how the legal in the past decade and on the newest WOMEN’S ROLES codification of traditional gender role Supreme Court appointees having yet assumptions infringed on men’s rights to establish a legacy. Finally, while Jus- Jennine Hurl-Eamon, WOMEN’S as well. tice Ginsburg’s foreword and the intro- ROLES IN EIGHTEENth-CEN- The topical groupings of cases fit- duction by Leon Silverman (Chairman TURY EUROPE. Denver, CO: ABC- tingly illustrate the precedential process of the Supreme Court Historical Soci- CLIO/Greenwood, 2010. (Women’s by which the Court, when making new ety) adequately contextualize the work’s roles through history.) 171p. bibl. in- case decisions, draws on past decisions scope and aim, the volume would ben- dex. $55.00, ISBN 978-0313376962. from cases with similar circumstances. efit from a concluding chapter synthe- Likewise, the interspersed discussions sizing the many accomplishments (and Reviewed by Melissa A. Young of key legislation aptly reveal the re- noted setbacks) in the realm of the law flexive relationship between judiciary and women’s/gender rights, as well as Through an array of keenly chosen actions and law: Chapter 7’s presenta- offering some speculation about the excerpts, illustrations, and narratives, tion of the Court’s applications of Title future, particularly in relation to the Jennine Hurl-Eamon illustrates the VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ever-evolving Supreme Court member- state of flux that existed in Europe and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the ship. in the 1700s regarding ideals about Court’s role in the development of the I would highly recommend this femininity, gender roles, and women’s Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, is accessible and comprehensive work as rights, as defined by the public and particularly strong. The boxed inserts a text for an undergraduate course on domestic spheres of family, work, with illustrations detailing key indi- women/gender and law. It would also politics, law, art, science, religion, viduals engagingly bring the abstract be a welcome addition to a library’s and war. Women across Europe, from issues down to a personal level — for circulating or reference collection. the Russian Empire to Portugal and instance, the backstory of McCorvey, Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s from Finland to Italy, are included in of Roe v. Wade fame, told on pages Rights deftly illuminates just how far this discussion of royalty, domestics, 210–213, is a must-read. The book’s removed we are from Elizabeth Cady Salonnièrs, urban craftswomen, revo- timelines of major cases and events Stanton’s “tyranny” of 1848. lutionaries, midwives, military wives, further ground the work in a historical and more. procession. Note Hurl-Eamon acknowledges My primary criticisms involve the the inherent difficulty in looking at added content for the updated edition. 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Call to women of the period as a whole, as if Aside from Cushman’s discussion of the Woman’s Rights Convention and they all fit neatly into a homogenous the two cases and legislation involving a Declaration of Sentiments,” in The group, when in reality their lives were the controversial “partial-birth abor- First Convention Ever Called to Discuss uniquely affected by societal norms, tion” procedure, the case additions the Civil and Political Rights of Women, demographic change, expansionist come off as afterthoughts in their lim- Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848, wars, and revolutions. On the other ited treatments. Similarly, alongside the ed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia hand, she has (and we have) the gift of biographical sketches of Justices Sandra Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann hindsight, which allows us to recog- Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Gins- McClintock, & Jane C.
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