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"The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law"
Excerpts from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Classic
By Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brenda Feigen Fasteau
Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2005


PRIMARY DOCUMENT


[Editor's Note: The following excerpts are taken from a document called "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law," written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Feigen Fasteau as a report of the Columbia Law School Equal Rights Advocacy Project in September 1974. Links to download the report -- either specific pages or the entire document -- appear below.]



Cover

  Cover page

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1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Prostitution:

  Excerpt from p. 72

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2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Segregating Prisoners by Sex

  Excerpt from p. 75

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3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Rights of Bigamists

  Excerpt from pp. 190-1

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4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Boy Scouts

  Excerpt from p. 131

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5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Mother's Day and Father's Day

  Excerpt from p. 133

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COMPLETE REPORT

Click below to download the entire document. Please note: it is a large file and will take some time to download.

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EPPC on Book TV
Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.   


Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

 Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

 How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.