Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and constitutional interpretation : the forgotten value of civic friendship / Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach -- Representation of women in the Constitution / Jan Lewis -- Declarations of independence : women and divorce in the early republic / Norma Basch -- Explanation lies in property : gender and its connection to economic considerations / Carol Berkin -- Women, bondage, and the reconstructed Constitution / Peggy Cooper Davis -- Unkept promise of the Thriteenth Amendment : a call for reparations / Adjoa Aiyetoro -- Culture of work enforcement : race, gender and U.S. welfare police / Frances Fox Piven -- Silent Constitution : affirmative obligation and the feminization of poverty / Federalism(s), feminism, families, and the Constitution / Judith Resnik -- What's privacy got to do with it? A comparative approach to the feminist critique / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Women's human rights and the U.S. Constitution : initiating a dialogue / Carol C. Gould -- Battered women, feminist lawmaking, privacy, and equality / Elizabeth M. Schneider -- Infringements of women's constitutional rights in religious lawmaking on abortion / Lucinda Joy Peach -- What place for family privacy? / Martha Albertson Fineman -- Right to privacy and gay/lesbian sexuality : beyond decriminalization to equal recognition / David A.J. Richards -- Gender of discrimination : race, sex, and fair employment / Eileen Boris -- Second generation employment discrimination : a structural approach / Susan Sturm -- Our economy of mothers and others : women and economics revisited / Joan Williams -- Women and citizenship : the Virginia Military Institute case / Philippa Strum -- "Heightened scrutiny" : An alternative route to constitutional equality for U.S. women / Cynthia Harrison -- Whatever happened to the ERA / Jane Mansbridge.