We the Women

The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

We the Women
Julie C Suk
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 240pg
1 Nov 2020 US
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9781510755918
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Professor Julie Suk, a distinguished legal scholar, builds off a century of momentum, telling the heroic stories of women who protested, resisted, and persisted to establish their constitutional rights. The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women' s constitutional right to vote. But have we come far enough? After the adoption and ratification of the 19th Amendment, a bold group of women proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It took Congress almost 50 years to adopt it in 1972. The fight for ratification in the states took another 50 years, culminating in Virginia' s historic ratification in January 2020. Why did the ERA take so long? Is it too late to add it to the Constitution? And what could it do for women? In We the Women, Suk follows the history of the ERA through the voices of the relentless women who pursued it. For over 100 years, women' s efforts to enshrine their rights in the Constitution have faced opposition and subterfuge. And, despite significant gains, the triumphs of gender equality have not met the needs of all women- especially working mothers. Exploring the ERA' s past and future, Suk explains hot-button issues such as pregnancy discrimination, violence against women, and unequal pay.
Julie C. Suk is a frequent commentator in the media on legal issues affecting women, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and CBS News. The House Judiciary Committee cited Suk' s article, "An Equal Rights Amendment for the Twenty-First Century: Bringing Global Constitutionalism Home" in its report leading to the House' s historic vote in 2020 to remove the ERA ratification deadline. Suk is a professor of sociology, political science, and liberal Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she also serves as the academic dean overseeing the Graduate Center' s interdisciplinary master' s programs. Prior to joining The Graduate Center, Suk was a law professor for 13 years at Cardozo Law School in New York, and taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. In Fall 2020, she will be a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome. She has a J. D. from Yale Law School, where she studied on a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and a D. Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, where she held a Marshall Scholarship. She lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781510755918
Published: 1 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Sky Pony Press
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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