Equal Protection of the Law?: Gender and Justice in the United States Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Definitions, Examples, and Analytical Tools	3
	Sex/Gender	3
	Patriarchy	3
	Feminism	5
	Analytical Tools	5
	Two Court Cases as Examples	8
Ch. 2	Citizenship, Constitutional Rights, and Equality: Elusive Goals	13
	Early American Institutions	14
	Women Challenge the Law of Domestic Relations	16
	Constitutional Challenges	19
Ch. 3	Participating in the Criminal Justice System	35
	Law Enforcement and Corrections	36
	The Practice of Law	45
	Jury Service	51
Ch. 4	Women and Girls as Victims	55
	Living in a Climate of Violence	55
	Rape	59
	Woman Battering/Domestic Violence	65
	Criminal Justice Responses	75
	Stalking	82
	Sexual Harassment	84
	The VAWA Perspective	88
Ch. 5	Victims and Offenders: Gender as the Link	89
	Victims and Offenders: Delinquent Girls	96
	Victims Who Become Offenders: Battered Women Who Kill	98
	Prostitution: The Vicious Cycle	100
Ch. 6	Punishing Women: The Experience of Female Offenders	105
	The Numbers	105
	Behind the Numbers	106
	Casualties in the War on Drugs	108
	Establishing Prisons for Women	110
	Prison Life	113
	Women on Death Row	124
Ch. 7	Regulating Reproduction	129
	Historical Background	131
	Controlling the Unfit	134
	Privacy and Reproductive Rights	135
	Criminalizing Pregnant Women	139
Ch. 8	Concluding Thoughts	145
	Notes	151
App. 1	The Seneca Falls Declaration	171
App. 2	Bradwell v. Illinois	175
App. 3	Muller v. Oregon	177
App. 4	Thompson v. Thompson	179
App. 5	Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia	181
App. 6	Hoyt v. Florida	183
App. 7	Frontiero v. Richardson	185
App. 8	United States v. Virginia	187
App. 9	Dothard v. Rawlinson	189
App. 10	Buck v. Bell	193
App. 11	Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey	195
App. 12	Film and Fiction	199
	Bibliography	203