Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women.
Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York: New York University Press, [1991]. xi, 525 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in very good dust jacket. Tear near dust jacket spine. Internally clean. $15. * A comprehensive legal history tracing the status of women in American law from the colonial era through the late 20th century. Hoff critiques the traditional linear narrative of legal progress, arguing that constitutional and statutory changes historically reinforced gender discrimination under the guise of protectionism, and provides an essential framework for understanding the systemic legal barriers surrounding civic, economic, and reproductive rights in the United States.
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