Shortlisted : : Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court /

Shortlisted : : Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court / / Hannah Brenner Johnson, Renee Knake Jefferson.

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme CourtIn 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equali...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
VerfasserIn:
Johnson, Hannah Brenner,
Jefferson, Renee Knake,
MitwirkendeR:
Murray, Melissa,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 black and white images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Shortlisted Sisters
  • 1. The First Shortlisted Woman
  • 2. The Shortlists before the First Nominee
  • 3. From Shortlisted to Selected
  • 4. The Shortlists following O’Connor: A Long Way from Nine
  • Part II. Their Stories Are Our Stories
  • 5. After Shortlisted, Tokenism
  • 6. Challenging Double Binds and Unifying Double Lives
  • 7. No Longer Zero
  • 8. Surmounting the Shortlist
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix 1. Our Methodology for Determining Supreme Court Shortlists
  • Appendix 2. A Note on Historical Research
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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