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Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best
Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously
untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US
Supreme Court In 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
equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the
decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked
stories of nine extraordinary women-a cohort large enough to seat
the entire Supreme Court-who appeared on presidential lists dating
back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the
highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years.
Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate
judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a
potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake
Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together
long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private
archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these
accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical
gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and
bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of
diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar
for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to
combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for
those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who
select them in the legal profession and beyond.
Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best
Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously
untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the
US Supreme Court In 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 equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered
in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked
stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat
the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists
dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on
the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early
years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal
appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as
a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee
Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together
long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private
archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these
accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical
gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and
bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of
diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar
for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to
combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for
those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who
select them in the legal profession and beyond.
The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage
they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down
barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name
speaks volumes for itself-but, as she clarifies in the foreword to
this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do
not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
and Ginsburg's closest professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way
to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at
ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who
became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of
these women in order to provide an essential history of their path
for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and
all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died
in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about
the fourteen women who preceded her, Paving the Way is filled with
details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from
their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical
context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in
which these women lived. Paving the Way is not just a collection of
individual stories of remarkable women but also a well-crafted
interweaving of law and society during a historical period when
women's voices were often not heard and sometimes actively muted.
The final chapter connects these first fourteen women to the
"second wave" of women law professors who achieved tenure-track
appointments in the 1960s and 1970s, carrying on the torch and
analogous challenges. This is a decidedly feminist project, one
that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and
admired publicly in the years before her death.
This book tells the movement and litigation stories behind
important reproductive rights and justice cases. The twelve
chapters span topics including contraception, abortion, pregnancy,
and assisted reproductive technologies, telling the stories of
these cases using a wide-lens perspective that illuminates the
complex ways law is debated and forged-in social movements, in
representative government, and in courts. Some of the chapters shed
new light on cases that are very much part of the constitutional
law canon-Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood
v. Casey, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs. Others
introduce the reader to new cases from state and lower federal
courts that illuminate paths not taken in the law. Reading the
cases together highlights the lived horizon in which individuals
have encountered and struggled with questions of reproductive
rights and justice at different eras in our nation's history-and so
reveals the many faces of law and legal change. The volume is being
published at a critical and perhaps pivotal moment for this area of
law. The changing composition of the Supreme Court, increased
executive and legislative action, and shifting political interests
have all pushed issues of reproductive rights and justice to the
forefront of contemporary discourse. The volume is suited to a wide
range of law school courses, including constitutional law, family
law, employment law, and reproductive rights and justice; it could
also be assigned in undergraduate or graduate courses on history,
gender studies, and reproductive rights and justice.
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