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Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: The Constitutional Development Of The Nineteenth Amendment In The Decade Following Ratification, Paula A. Monopoli

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This essay is based on my remarks at the Center for Constitutional Law’s symposium on the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. It offers a brief summary of the thesis of my forthcoming book from Oxford University Press. In Constitutional Orphan: Gender Equality and the Nineteenth Amendment (forthcoming 2020), I argue that the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 represented a significant moment in American history, one which held the promise of change in the political, civil and social status of women in our republic. However, what emerged from a decade of contestation was a thin conception of the Nineteenth’s …

Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: Woman Suffrage: The Afterstory, Ellen Carol Dubois

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The history of the US woman suffrage movement did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. While numbers slowly grew of eligible women voting, veterans of the suffrage movement organized to win elective office and use the power of women's votes to gain important legislative gains. This article follows both voting rates and women winning public office up to the revival of feminism in the 1960s.

The Impact Of Justice Scalia's Replacement On Gender Equality Issues, Wilson R. Huhn

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The last forty-six years may be accurately described as the era of the modern Republican Supreme Court. As a result of presidential elections, Republican presidents have nominated all ten of the Justices appointed to the United States Supreme Court between 1969 and 1991. Republicans have thus controlled the Court since 1970. During this period the right to gender equality was recognized and the right to marriage equality was realized. However, also during this period many Republican Justices staunchly opposed gender equality, and far more remains to be accomplished.

Since Justice Scalia’s death, the Supreme Court has been deadlocked on a …

Sexual Exploitation In The Rhetoric Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lisa Shawn Hogan

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In this essay, Lisa Hogan explores Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s attacks on marriage, including her critique of the institution of marriage and her support of liberal divorce laws. It reveals that Stanton’s most controversial writings addressed woman’s sexuality in a broader context, including discussions of sexual exploitation and infanticide.

The Origins Of Constitutional Gender Equality In The Nineteenth-Century Work Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tracy Thomas

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This introduction to the symposium previews the colloquium held at the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron on the intellectual work of pioneering feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It highlights the talks from scholars in law, history, and women’s studies, published in this symposium issue, that explore Stanton’s philosophical and political work for gender equality in the political, domestic, and religious spheres.