The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women

The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change is designed to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, sophisticated treatment of the legal status of all American women.

Authors Baer and Goldstein skillfully blend doctrinal and political developments to document and explain the evolution of women's rights and the lawas well as the dynamics and dissension within the feminist movement. Building on Goldstein's previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, gender discrimination, and women's rights with new cases and readings on family law, gay rights, and criminal law.