Sisters in law: how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world [First Harper Perennial paperback edition] 9780062238474, 0062238477

Country girl, city kid -- The lawsuit of Ruth's dreams -- Goldwater girl and card-carrying member of the ACLU -- Ac

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English Pages xxiii, 390, 13 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Year 2016

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Sisters in law: how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world [First Harper Perennial paperback edition]
 9780062238474, 0062238477

Table of contents :
Country girl, city kid --
The lawsuit of Ruth's dreams --
Goldwater girl and card-carrying member of the ACLU --
Act one: Building women's equality --
Intermission: Abortion --
Act two: Equality in peril --
Act three: The stay-at-home dad to the rescue --
Finale: Boys and girls together --
Sandra O'Connor raises Arizona --
Welcome Justice O'Connor --
Women work for Justice O'Connor --
Queen Sandra's court --
No queen's peace in the abortion wars --
I'm Ruth, not Sandra --
Ginsburg's feminist voice --
The importance of being O'Connor and Ginsburg --
Justice O'Connor's self-inflicted wound --
The great dissenter --
Notorious R.B.G. --
Our heroines.

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