Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women's equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when ma

Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. She stood on the shoulders of brilliant women who persisted across gen

Constitutions and gender is a new and exciting field, attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely handbook features co