Equal: Women Reshape American Law
by Fred Strebeigh, published 2009, by W. W. Norton
Equal: Women Reshape American Law is a narrative legal history, focused on the past four decades and beginning with the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of women fighting for a place in American law--often against resistance from on high.
Equal is based on years of reporting and the generosity of many people who spent hours discussing their work and who also offered materials from their own private archives.
A Few Words about Equal:
"magnificent achievement" -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"wonderful" and "thrilling" -- Anthony Lewis
"monumental" and "indispensable" -- The Nation
"fantastic, sensational" -- Naomi Wolf
"really the story of an insurgency" -- Publishers Weekly
"I love Fred's book" -- Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon
(For fuller versions of these comments, please click here.)
"wonderful" and "thrilling" -- Anthony Lewis
"monumental" and "indispensable" -- The Nation
"fantastic, sensational" -- Naomi Wolf
"really the story of an insurgency" -- Publishers Weekly
"I love Fred's book" -- Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon
(For fuller versions of these comments, please click here.)
Excerpts from Equal
For opening segments of each part of Equal: Women Reshape American Law
(W. W. Norton, 2009), click on the book's title above.
For full searchable endnotes for Equal, please click here.
Much of Equal is already readable via Google Book Search (where you'll then need to search by title), courtesy of W. W. Norton.
(W. W. Norton, 2009), click on the book's title above.
For full searchable endnotes for Equal, please click here.
Much of Equal is already readable via Google Book Search (where you'll then need to search by title), courtesy of W. W. Norton.
Symposium in February 2009 at Rutgers Law
An all-day symposium February 13, 2009, gathered many of the law professors and other attorneys who played major roles in all parts of Equal: Women Reshape American Law. Professor Wendy Webster Williams delivered
the keynote address prepared by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
For details on “Rutgers School of Law–Newark Celebrates Women Reshaping American Law,” please click here.
the keynote address prepared by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
For details on “Rutgers School of Law–Newark Celebrates Women Reshaping American Law,” please click here.
Symposium in April 2009 at Georgetown Law
An all-day symposium April 22, 2009, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, brought together many of the attorneys whose work to create the Violence Against Women Act is narrated in Part 5 of Equal, including Vice President Joseph Biden (see my article in the New Republic of September 2008). I spoke on a mid-day panel, following two of the law professors and one of the judges whom I interviewed when reporting Equal. Please click here for details on the April 22 event at Georgetown and here for other events.
American Bar Association Honor to Equal
The America Bar Association has honored Equal as one of the two best books of the year in its 2010 Gavel Awards for "outstanding efforts to foster public understanding of the law."
Equal: Women Reshape American Law (W.W. Norton, 2009), Fred Strebeigh