Description: Too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only 'We the Men." A long line of judges, politicians, and other influential scene setters have ignored women's struggles for equality or even claimed that the United States has already left sex discrimination behind. Jill Hasday's We the Men is the first book to explore how forgetting women's struggles for equality--and forgetting the work America still has to do on this front--perpetuates injustice, promotes complacency, and denies how generations of women have had to fight for reform.
Review Quotes: "This deeply researched book explores a wide range of source material, including court cases, popular media, and history textbooks, to explore the nexus of law and society. In so doing, Hasday underscores the legal system as culturally embedded and identifies legal actors as important contributors to public memory. This focus on memory and historiography makes the book a useful tool for instructors and students of American women's history looking to analyze the subject from a fresh vantage point. Highly recommended." -- H. H. Williams, Choice