Product Description: Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description:     Contemporary Cases in Women’s Rights is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States.  Abortion, sexual harassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights—the legal and social questions surrounding these issues all come to life through excerpts of important U...read more

Product Description: Leading feminist scholars offer the reader both sides of 'the feminism of difference' debate and the most recent arguments concerning the divisive issues of feminist theory and public policy.

Product Description: Provides a useful, fair-minded and comprehensive guide to the various theories of constitutional interpretation that are contending for the adherence of contemporary jurists.

Using a wide variety of cases involving women’s rights, Leslie Friedman Goldstein examines the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court initiates and responds to social change. This edition covers all major Supreme Court decisions that affect gender equity and reproductive rights through May 1987.