Book description
Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down sex discrimination, Dorothy Kenyon drew the legal blueprint.
Justice Was Her Calling is the first full-length biography of the New York judge, lawyer, and civil liberties champion whose litigation strategies helped transform the Equal Protection Clause into a powerful…
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I had literally been searching for this book.
In my own research, I kept coming across Dorothy Kenyon’s name, but could not find any substantial examination of the life or work of this foremother of women’s legal equality.
This book combines a story of Kenyon’s provocative life with her pivotal leadership of women’s rights and the development of equal protection law to give a full picture of the legal movement for gender equality.
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