Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
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Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri s Reasoning from Race is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law.
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