Women and the American Legal Order

about the editor Karen J. Maschke holds a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Her area of specialization in public law, with a concentration on women and the law. She is the author of Litigation,Courts, and Women Workers (Praeger, 1989) and has published articles concerning women's legal rights. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the national Endowment for the Humanities.

• Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Constitutionality of Discrimination Based on Sex, The Negro Woman's Stake in the Equal Rights Amendment, Invisible Women: The Legal Fiction of Marital Unity in Nineteenth-Century America, The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism, The Legal Status of Women in Early America: A Reappraisal, The Emerging Legal History of Women in the United States: Property, Divorce, and the Constitution, Unthinking ERA Thinking: A Review of Why We Lost the ERA, Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation, Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears, Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights, Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America, From Three-Fifths to Zero: Implications of the Constitution for African-American Women, 1787–1870, Women's Rights and the Limits of Constitutional Doctrine, Equality Challenged: Equal Rights and Sexual Difference, Acknowledgments