This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibility-or impossibility-of using law as a tool of social change.
- ISBN10 0674491009
- ISBN13 9780674491007
- Publish Date 27 November 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English