The incredible story of how a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer won Roe v. Wade, and what it means forty years later.

The cutting edge is where law and culture hurts, which is where MacKinnon operates in these essays on the transnational status and treatment of women.

A history of American women from the Indian woman of the 16th century to the dual-role career woman and mother of the 1980s.

In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time.

DuBois (history, U. of California in Los Angeles) traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship, and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and ...

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia reveals a world of ordinary Russians who lived extraordinary lives and records the voices of a long-silenced minority.

A new edition of a groundbreaking, feminist defense of pornography as free speech Named a Notable Book by The New York Times Book Review in 1995, Defending Pornography examines a key question that has divided feminists for decades: is ...

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250.

Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut ...

Martha Minow here takes a hard look at the way our legal system functions.