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Index

The pagination of this electronic edition does not match the edition from which it was created. To locate a specific entry, please use your e-book reader's search tools.

Note: Page numbers in
italics
indicate a photograph.

Abernathy, Charles, 72

abortion issue

   
overview, 204–5

   
doctors' awareness of women dying from illegal abortions, 78–79

   
D&X or partial birth abortions, 250–53, 268–70

   
and feminist movement, 79–80

   
and Ginsburg, 60, 61, 80–81, 184–85, 204, 205, 209

   
and health of the pregnant woman, 79–80, 152–54, 185, 194, 250–52

   
and O'Connor, 60, 131, 134, 150–54, 184, 251

   
prohibition on giving foreign aid for abortions, 259

   
separation from feminism, 78–79

   
and Supreme Court, 61–62, 82–83

   
and thalidomide, 79

   
undue-burden standard, 153–54, 194–96, 251–52

   
U.S. military attempt to force an abortion, 61–62, 188

   
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
, 186–90

   
women asking their husbands before an abortion, 191, 194–95, 268

   
See also
anti-abortion movement;
Roe v. Wade

abusive work environment, defining, 218

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

   
and ERA, 37–38, 39

   
and Ford Foundation, 61

   
and Ginsburg's Harvard professorship, 56–57

   
and
Moritz
case, 33–34, 39, 43

   
and
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
, 191

   
policy on women's equality, 55–56

   
and
Reed v. Reed
, 34–35

   
resistance to integration of women, 58

   
women's caucus, 38–39, 58

ACLU Women's Rights Project

   
overview, 62–63

   
agenda-setting conference with NOW, 63–66

   
areas for action, 59–60

   
creation of, 57–58

   
and Ginsburg, xvii, 58

   
offices in midtown Manhattan, 59

   
and
Reed v. Reed
, xxi

   
See also
Ginsburg's cases before the Supreme Court

Adams, Abigail, 38

affirmative action

   
and ERA, 85

   
Fisher v. University of Texas
, 285–87

   
and Ginsburg, 170–71, 208–9, 286–87

   
and O'Connor, 119, 171–72

   
resistance to, 169–70

   
Scalia on, 119

   
Sotomayor's dissent on Roberts's roll back, 301

   
Supreme Court on, 170–72, 286–87

Akron v. Akron Reproductive Center
, 152–54, 184–85

Alabama

   
African Americans voting in, 287–88

   
Frontiero v. Richardson
, 69–77, 97, 142–43

   
J.E.B. v. Alabama
, 224–28

   
Lilly Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber
, 274–76

Albright, Miller v.
, 246–47

Alexander, Michelle, 228

Alito, Samuel

   
appointment and confirmation, 259, 268

   
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
, 293, 294

   
and Third Circuit ruling on
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
, 190, 268

American Bar Association, 51, 66, 110, 160–61

American Civil Liberties Union.
See
ACLU

American Law Institute (ALI), 79

American Nurses Association, 143

anti-abortion movement

   
Akron v. Akron Reproductive Center
, 152–54, 184–85

   
and Bush, George W., 252, 257, 259

   
in Missouri, 150–52, 186–90

   
and O'Connor, 131

   
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
, 190–96, 295

   
states' hurdles to abortion, 60, 186–90, 195–96

   
and States' rights, 251

   
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
, 186–90

Arizona

   
abortion issue, 60

   
Burger's trip to, 127–29

   
law limiting women's work hours, 47

   
O'Connor as Arizona Court of Appeals judge, 129

   
O'Connor as Arizona State Senator, 23–24, 25, 45–50, 122–24, 134

   
O'Connor childhood, xviii–xix, 3–5

   
politics in, 19–20, 119–20

Armstrong, Anne, 126–27

Armstrong, Tobin, 126

Askin, Frank, 22–23, 25

Atlantic Monthly
special issue on women, 45–46

Babbitt, Bruce, 129, 200

Babcock, Barbara, 147–48, 205

Bader, Celia (mother), xix, 6, 7, 200

Bader, Kiki, 7.
See also
entries beginning with
“Ginsburg, Ruth Bader”

Bader, Nathan (father), 5–6

Baker, Jim, 137

Bakke, Allan, 170

Ballard, Schlesinger v.
, 89–90, 227

Ball State, Vance v.
, 284

Barnes, Paulette, 163

Barr, Burton, 123–24

bathing suit (wet T-shirt) contest at King & Spalding, 157–58, 162

Baxter, Hugh, 218–19, 222

Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy, 108

Bemiss, Fitzgerald, 137

Benshoof, Janet, 289

Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, California, 87–88

Berresford, Susan, 63

Berzon, Marsha, 87–88, 99

Biden, Joe, 134

“bird shit” case
(F.S. Royster Guano v. Virginia)
, 43–44

Birmingham Board of Education, Jackson v
., 265–66

birth control and health insurance case, 292–95

Biskupic, Joan, 3, 133

Black, Hugo, 41

Blackmun, Harry,
197

   
appointment, 41–42

   
and Ginsburg, 225, 226, 227–28

   
Harris v. Forklift Systems
, 217, 218

   
J.E.B. v. Alabama
, 226

   
on legal feminism, 75–76

   
and O'Connor, 151, 225–26

   
Roe v. Wade
, 78

   
and strict scrutiny of sex discrimination, 76

   
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
, 186–90

   
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
, 98, 100

Blank, Diane, 156–57

Board of Education, Brown v.
, 40, 117–18, 140, 144–45, 273

Bolton, Doe v.
, 80

Boren, Craig v.
, 105–8, 142

Bork, Robert, and borking, 208

Born, Brooksley, 160–61

Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 45

Bradwell v. Illinois
, 92, 269–70

Braibant, Guy, 176

Brandeis, Louis, 40, 273

Braun, Carol Moseley, 199

Brennan, William

   
Berzon as clerk, 87–88, 99

   
on
Califano v. Goldfarb
, 104

   
and
Craig v. Boren
, 107

   
and Ginsburg's argument for strict scrutiny of sex discrimination, 75–76, 77

   
Hishon v. King & Spalding
, 159

   
Johnson v. Santa Clara Transportation Authority
, 171–72

   
and O'Connor, xxi

   
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
, 182

   
raising the standard for sex discrimination laws, 107

   
refusing to hire a female clerk, 21

   
on
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
, 100

Breyer, Stephen, 176, 205–6, 240–41

Brown, Shirley, 261, 262

Brown v. Board of Education
, 40, 117–18, 140, 144–45, 273

Burger, Warren,
115

   
appointment, 41

   
Arizona trip, 127–29

   
Craig v. Boren
, 107

   
Hishon v. King & Spalding
, 159–60

   
Hogan v. Mississippi
, 145

   
Meritor Savings Bank
,
FSB v. Vinson
, 166

   
and O'Connor, 128–31, 135, 168–69

   
on women on the Supreme Court, 47

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
, 292–95

Bush, George H. W., 154, 187

Bush, George W., 252, 257, 259

Bush v. Gore
, 255–59

Califano v. Goldfarb
, 104, 106

Califano v. Westcott
, 111–12

Cannon, Mark, 127

Carhart, Gonzales v.
, 268–70, 274

Carhart, Stenberg v.
, 250–53, 296

Carr, Robert, 10

Carter, Jimmy, 109, 110–11

Casey, Planned Parenthood v.
, 190–96, 295

Catholic Church and abortion, 150

centrism as philosophy, 221

Charleston, Ferguson v.
, 261–62

childbearing and special privileges, 246–50, 262–64

children born in a foreign country to American fathers vs. America mothers, 248–50, 262–64

child support case jury in Alabama, 224–28

child support for boys vs. girls, 105

Christopher, Warren, 12

Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 48–49

Civiletti, Benjamin, 112

“Civil Liberty After the War” (Cushman), 10

Civil Rights Act (1964)

   
overview, xvii

   
applicability to partnerships, 157, 158–60, 161

   
Marshall's strategy, xvi

   
and sex discrimination, 246–47, 275–76

   
and sexual harassment, 164–68, 217–19

Clark, Penny, 88–90, 91, 98–99, 102–3, 105, 144

Cleary, Goesaert v.
, 26

Cleveland, Sarah, 218

Clinton, Bill, 6, 199–200, 206–7

Clinton, Hilary Rodham, 160–61

Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland
, 282–83

colleges and universities, integration of, 55–56, 138, 139–40, 141

Collins, Gail, xiii

Colom, Wilbur, 140, 146

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 136

Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 16, 21, 57, 66, 109

Commissioner of Internal Revenue
,
Moritz v.
, 33–34, 39, 43, 55

Commission on Women in the Profession, American Bar Association, 160–61

“Conditional Emancipation of Women, The” (Moberg), 21–22, 26, 27

Congress of the United States

   
on abortion issue, 251–52

   
Family and Medical Leave Act, 265, 282–83

   
and Ledbetter, 275–76

   
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 276

   
Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 293

   
Voting Rights Act, 287–88

   
See also
Civil Rights Act

Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), 38

Conlan, John, 48

Constitution of the United States

   
discrimination protection, 35

   
judicial interpretation of, 36–37, 209, 210

   
See also
Fourteenth Amendment

Cooper, George, 84

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 7, 9–11, 14

Cosby, Kelly, 290–91

country club elites, 137–38

Court of Appeals

   
Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland
, 282–83

   
D.C. Circuit, 112–14, 163–64, 207, 231

   
Fourth Circuit, 238–39

   
Second Circuit, 110–11

   
Third Circuit, 190–91, 268

Cox, Bill, 150

Craig v. Boren
, 105–8, 142

criminal sodomy laws, 260

Cuomo, Mario, 200

Cushman, Robert, xx, 9–11

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
, 247–48

Day, Ada Mae Wilkey (mother), 3

Day, Alan (brother), 4

Day, Harry (father), xviii–xix, 3, 4–5

Day, Sandra.
See
entries beginning with
“O'Connor, Sandra Day”

death row inmate exonerated, 279, 280–82

Dershowitz, Alan, 215

difference feminism, 201–4, 229, 234–35

different-voice theory, 203–4, 234, 300

discrimination

   
affirmative action as reverse discrimination charge, 170–71

   
constitutional protection against, 35

   
employment discrimination cases, 284–85

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