Free to Be Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Story of Women and Law - Tapa blanda

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Free to Be Ruth Bader GinsburgThe Story of Women and LawBefore taking her place as the second woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quietly led a revolution and forever changed life in America for both men and women.She was born in 1933 in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. Her father, an immigrant, had no formal education beyond night school to learn English. She was brilliant college classmates described her as scary smart. She wanted to be a lawyer, but the legal profession was all but closed to women.Reserved and quiet, she didn t set out to be a trailblazer, but there was something in her way: the law. Hundreds of years of legal precedent, a line of devastating Supreme Court cases, and countless statutes depriving women of equal citizenship and keeping them from full participation in the legal and political process. So she took it upon herself to change the laws of the United States.Mixing social and legal history with a moving and intimate biography, award-winning author Teri Kanefield captures a turbulent era and tells the story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg defied expectations to become one of the most influential and powerful women in America. We hear many voices in this wonderfully engaging biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and come away with a far richer understanding of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and of what the rise of feminism has meant for all of us, whatever our gender, whatever our politics. Kathleen Vanden Heuvel, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Law Library Director, Adjunct Professor of Law"An engrossing biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that doubles as a primer on how America's champions for gender equality pressed their cause in the courts. Recommended for every law student, lawyer, and lay reader looking for an authoritative yet readable treatment of how the law shapes women's lives, and vice-versa." Kathleen Morris, Associate Professor of Law, Golden Gate Law School

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