Reasoning from race feminism law and the civil rights revolution mayeri serena isbn 9780674047594 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The second wave of the american womens movement during the 1960s and 1970s owed much to the modern civil rights movement regarding both the formulation of i. Reasoning from race sets as its ambition to trace the history of how sex equality federal statutes and constitutional jurisprudence came to rely on and in turn often be limited by analogies to race it is a history of ideas of the relationship between the movement for civil rights and womens rights from 1960 through the 1970s and the individuals who bridged those two movements in each of these respects mayeri succeeds brilliantly. In the 1960s and 1970s the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by murray became potent weapons in the battle for womens rights as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement serena mayeris reasoning from race is the first book to explore the development and consequences of this key feminist strategy mayeri uncovers the history of an often misunderstood connection at the heart of american antidiscrimination law her study