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  • Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life

    The life and times of a trailblazing feminist in American law. The first female Stanford law professor was also first director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, one of the first women to be an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and the biographer of California’s first woman lawyer, Clara Foltz. Survivor, pioneer, leader, and fervent defender of the powerless and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in the Crossfire

    Understanding and Ending Honor Killing

    Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their families: such 'transgressions' range from walking with a boy in their neighborhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing, to being a victim of rape. Women in the Crossfire presents a thorough examination of honor killing, an ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Break Point

    Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX

    by Sheri Brenden ...
    How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athleticsPeggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a junior, was a cross country runner and skier. All these two talented teenagers wanted was a chance to compete on their high school sports teams. But in Minnesota in 1972 the only way on the field with the boys ran through a federal court—so that was where ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Private Love, Public School

    Gay Teacher Under Fire

    Gerry Crane had hit his stride. A talented high school music teacher, he was loved by students and parents-lauded as one of the best teachers at his school. Gerry had reconciled his conservative religious upbringing with his identity as a gay man, finding an affirming spiritual home in a local church. He enjoyed a close circle of loving friends and had found the love of his life. In October 1995, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducción histórica al Derecho Romano

    Series Book 7 - Derecho
    Para comprender el derecho romano y no limitar su estudio a una mera introducción sistemática casi intemporal al derecho, con una referencia a Roma puramente accidental, se necesita un marco de acontecimientos históricos. Este trabajo pretende limitar el acervo de conocimientos históricos a un mínimo práctico, teniendo en cuenta que la introducción histórica no es un fin en sí, sino un paso para ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thriving in an All-Boys Club

    Female Police and Their Fight for Equality

    In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it’s been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of their struggles to fit in and survive in this “all-boys club.”Thriving in an All Boys Club: Female Police and Their Fight for Equality examines ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Guilt by Accusation

    The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

    A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Trans

    When Ideology Meets Reality

    by Helen Joyce ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021‘In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a bestseller.’ Louise Perry, New Statesman‘Thank goodness for Helen Joyce.’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times‘Rea... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lady Justice

    Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

    **Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current InterestAn instant New York Times Bestseller!“Stirring…Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.”—New York Times Book Review“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope.”—Boston GlobeDahlia Lithwick, one of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Queer (In)Justice

    The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

    Series Book 5 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The first comprehensive work to turn a “queer eye” on the criminal justice system, providing an eye-opening study of LGBTQ+ rights and equality.Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes—from “gleeful gay killers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Policing the Womb

    Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

    In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Normal Life

    Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

    by Dean Spade ...
    Revised and Expanded EditionWait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Believing

    Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

    by Anita Hill ...
    **“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPRWinner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksFrom the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Boys Will Be Boys

    Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

    'The most important thing you'll read this year' ElleThe incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is most often asked: 'How do I raise my son to respect women?’With equal parts passion and humour, Ford reveals how patriarchal society is as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Trial of Tempel Anneke

    Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663

    Edited by Peter Morton ...
    The accused was Anna Roleffes, known as Tempel Anneke. She was arrested on the charge of witchcraft in June of 1663. She was found guilty and was executed on December 30th that same year. Her trial was long and involved, with many witnesses from several towns and villages. Consisting of direct translations of the trial testimony, The Trial of Tempel Anneke portrays a large and varied cast of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • All Our Trials

    Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

    by Emily L Thuma ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation.All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • About Abortion

    Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

    by Carol Sanger ...
    One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women’s willingness to talk about ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Manifesting Justice

    Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

    by Valena Beety ...
    “Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.” —Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on CrimeThrough the lens of her work with the Innocence ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Equality under the Constitution

    Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment

    The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights. Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied ... Read more

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  • Shattering Silences

    Strategies to Prevent Sexual Assault, Heal Survivors, and Bring Assailants to Justice

    An in-depth look at revolutionary new ways to handle sexual assaults.Every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted, and each year there are nearly 300,000 victims of sexual assault. But victims are no longer silent, and new practices by police, prosecutors, nurses, and rape crisis professionals are resulting in more humane and compassionate treatment of victims and more aggressive ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sexual Justice

    Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash

    A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due processOver the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tainted Witness

    Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives

    by Leigh Gilmore ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • We the Women

    The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

    by Julie C. Suk ...
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. She stood on the shoulders of brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing what’s at stake in the current battle for the Equal Rights Amendment.The year 2020 marks the centennial the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD