Gender & the Law Books


Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment LawClass Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
Best Price: $4.74
Throughout my college career, I have become more and more aware of America's history in regards...
Transgender RightsTransgender Rights
Best Price: $12.89
This book is a very good source of imformation to protect yourself before even thinking about...
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and LawFeminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Best Price: $10.55
This eloquent book is a collection of insightful orations given by Ms. MacKinnon during the...
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early VirginiaAnne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia
Best Price: $16.32
This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures,...
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and PoliticsGender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
Best Price: $34.78
I don't write amazon reviews, but given the 5 star rating of the single review, I think a...


Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall StreetTales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street
Best Price: $2.90
I found it difficult to put this book down, and I would have given it 5 stars if the ending...
Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Critical America Series)Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Critical America Series)
Best Price: $26.00
View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . "This second edition is...
Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and CommentaryGender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary
Best Price: $105.30
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
Best Price: $20.66
Hey Everyone! Ever read these quotes by Marget Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood? ...
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and PalestineIn the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Best Price: $19.95
Tucker undertakes an exacting study of the gender discourse of Islamic legal practice in Bilad...


The Law of Sex DiscriminationThe Law of Sex Discrimination
Best Price: $85.83
Although this book is admittedly not the most accessible one in it's class, it is one of the...
Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. BoardOutsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. Board
Best Price: $65.00
Through interviews with prominent legal academics such as Lani Guinier, Kimberle Crenshaw, and...
Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective ResponsibilityBearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility
Best Price: $5.10
Having just come from a conference given by Dr. Bloom I can whole heartedly say that this is one...
Homosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature and LawHomosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature and Law
Best Price: $3.00
I found the book to be useful because he discusses the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek terms...
Battered Women In The Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)Battered Women In The Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
Best Price: $27.95
Recent laws have given women much-needed rights in seeking protection from abusive men, but...

Adversarial Legal Writing and Oral Argument (University Casebook Series)Adversarial Legal Writing and Oral Argument (University Casebook Series)
Best Price: $34.00
Silvia Coulter has written an invaluable guide to rainmaking for women lawyers: an...
No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the BoardroomNo Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Best Price: $36.10
Corporate America has historically been a man's world. It has been a commonplace assumption...
Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman (Illinois)Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman (Illinois)
Best Price: $2.44
I'm going to be a police recruit in the NYPD in the upcoming months, and wanted to know more...
Women's Lives, Men's LawsWomen's Lives, Men's Laws
Best Price: $11.50
In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in...
Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesSex Discrimination in the Workplace: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Best Price: $21.74
Any woman looking for information on discrimination in the workplace would be well-advised to...

Boundaries of Her Body: A Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaBoundaries of Her Body: A Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
Best Price: $13.90
I picked up Rowland's new book because of it's topic on the history of women's rights, but I...
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader (Critical America)Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader (Critical America)
Best Price: $19.50
This is a comprehensive, compelling collection sure to become a classic in sociology,...
Sexuality Law: Case 2007Sexuality Law: Case 2007
Best Price: $16.20
Battered Women and Feminist LawmakingBattered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
Best Price: $18.77
For most of history, the law permitted men to "chastise" their wives. Common law...
EEO Law and Personnel PracticesEEO Law and Personnel Practices
Best Price: $34.00
How do the EEO laws affect a company???s or an organization???s key personnel decisions? Popular...

Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early VirginiaBrabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Best Price: $20.00
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was...
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon: The Report of the Secret CommissionThe Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon: The Report of the Secret Commission
Best Price: $30.00
Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today (Series on Law, Politics and Society)Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today (Series on Law, Politics and Society)
Best Price: $18.57
Contemporary and controversial, Shannon Gilreath's Sexual Politics is an important update to...
Sexuality, Gender, and The Law: Abridged, Second Edition (University Casebook Series)Sexuality, Gender, and The Law: Abridged, Second Edition (University Casebook Series)
Best Price: $102.80
This abridged second edition is designed to meet the needs of undergraduate professors and...
The Constitution As Social Design: Gender And Civic Membership in the American Constitutional OrderThe Constitution As Social Design: Gender And Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order
Best Price: $19.20
This book focuses on gender and civic membership in American constitutional politics from the...

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Women in the Criminal Justice System)Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Women in the Criminal Justice System)
Best Price: $22.95
"Martin and Jurik provide a clear body of evidence illuminating the gendered nature of...
Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders (The Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders (The Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)
Best Price: $39.05
Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders systematically...
Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (Critical America)Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (Critical America)
Best Price: $16.99
View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ?This excellent primer traces the...
Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishment (Studies in Crime and Punishment)Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishment (Studies in Crime and Punishment)
Best Price: $32.95
Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, eleven women have been put to...
Sappho Goes to Law SchoolSappho Goes to Law School
Best Price: $8.98
Robson is an openly lesbian, politically progressive law professor. (In later articles, she has...

Presumed Equal: What America's Top Women Lawyers Really Think About Their FirmsPresumed Equal: What America's Top Women Lawyers Really Think About Their Firms
Best Price: $29.63
Congratulations on the fantastic book, Ms. Blohm and Ms. Riviera!
Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seroiusly (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seroiusly (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)
Best Price: $104.50
Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously includes a variety of materials, drawn from...
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
Best Price: $8.98
Frankly, I'm flabbergasted by the shallow and inaccurate reviews of this book that have appeared...
The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law (Critical America Series)The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law (Critical America Series)
Best Price: $22.00
Levit's book asks what will be the future of feminism now that so many goals of the 60s and 70s...
Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in IndiaReclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in India
Best Price: $34.20
Living in pluralist India has had critical consequences for Muslim women who are expected to...

Not without Our Consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950-59Not without Our Consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950-59
Best Price: $34.97
Same-Sex Marriage and the ConstitutionSame-Sex Marriage and the Constitution
Best Price: $7.25
This is a well-done book, but one that will be a bit hard for those not at least somewhat...
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial DecisionWhat Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision
Best Price: $21.00
A must-read for anyone who wants to more fully understand the most controversial and divisive...
Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of ReproductionSurrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction
Best Price: $22.51
Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front--surrogate...
Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal WorkplaceGender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace
Best Price: $26.91
This book contains invaluable information for women entering the law profession, but it is also...

Reporting Sexual Assault: A Social Ecology Perspective (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)Reporting Sexual Assault: A Social Ecology Perspective (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)
Best Price: $60.00
M?nard examines the effects of individual and contextual factors on victims' decision to contact...
Empowering Women: Land And Property Rights In Latin America (Pitt Latin American Studies)Empowering Women: Land And Property Rights In Latin America (Pitt Latin American Studies)
Best Price: $16.17
The expansion of married women’s property rights was a main achievement of the first...
The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood (Critical America (New York University Paperback))The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood (Critical America (New York University Paperback))
Best Price: $26.00
View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ?At a troubling time in history when a...
Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to EqualitySupreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality
Best Price: $47.00
The first authoritative reference to make Supreme Court cases and issues involving women's...
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay CouplesA Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples
Best Price: $5.94
This NOLO guide provides practical recommendations in an easy-to-read, accessible format. The...

Women With Disabilities: Found VoicesWomen With Disabilities: Found Voices
Best Price: $11.45
Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women...
The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in AmericaThe Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
Best Price: $5.99
I ordered this book when the history book I'd been using for my Intro to Women's Studies class...
Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the ClosetGaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
Best Price: $6.00
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual...
Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist ReaderFeminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader
Best Price: $21.99
View the Table of Contents or the Introductions by Nancy E. Dowd and Michelle S. Jacobs ...
Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and LawWomen, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law
Best Price: $14.75
Based on close study of the abolitionist movement and expanding on the author's previous books...

Voices of Women from the Criminal Justice SystemVoices of Women from the Criminal Justice System
Best Price: $19.97
These personal stories are short and highly moving, even shocking in most cases because the...
Gendered Justice: Addressing Female OffendersGendered Justice: Addressing Female Offenders
Best Price: $26.95
This volume represents a rich diversity of contemporary research, theory and perspectives on...
Postmodern Legal FeminismPostmodern Legal Feminism
Best Price: $10.39
Mary Joe Frug charts a course for future feminist thinking about law. She identifies the...
Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal RightsMaking Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights
Best Price: $19.75
Rachel Roth sheds intellectual and logical light on some highly emotional issues. Her book...
 
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