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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

1. The Dilemma of Pregnancy Policy

2. Woman's Place
The Domestic Code
Equal Rights and Special Treatment
The Facts of Common Knowledge
A Class by Herself
After Muller

3. Mothers at Work
Maternity Benefits
Motherhood as a Social Function
Motherhood as a Private Responsibility
A Two-Tier Policy

4. Feminism and Equality
True Equality and Real Protection
Sex, Race, and the Equality Framework
The Pregnancy Policy Puzzle
A New Solution

5. Difference in Court
Pregnancy Discrimination and the Supreme Court
Pregnancy Disability Legislation
Controversy in the Feminist Legal Community
Feminist Friends of the Court
The Justices Speak

6. Questioning Equality
Knots and Entanglements
Is Pregnancy So Different?

7. The Equality Framework Extended
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Women Workers
Familiy and Medical Leave Legislation

8. Difference as Strategy
So Great a Change
Strategizing for Justice
Female-Specific Policy and Twentieth-Century Politics

9. Beyond Equality versus Difference
A Radical Edge
The Critique of Equality
Toward a Politics of Diversity

10. Different but Not Unequal
Motherhood and Policy
Differential Consideration

Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813519197, 978-0813519197
      ISBN10: 0813519195

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      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      1. The Dilemma of Pregnancy Policy

      2. Woman's Place
      The Domestic Code
      Equal Rights and Special Treatment
      The Facts of Common Knowledge
      A Class by Herself
      After Muller

      3. Mothers at Work
      Maternity Benefits
      Motherhood as a Social Function
      Motherhood as a Private Responsibility
      A Two-Tier Policy

      4. Feminism and Equality
      True Equality and Real Protection
      Sex, Race, and the Equality Framework
      The Pregnancy Policy Puzzle
      A New Solution

      5. Difference in Court
      Pregnancy Discrimination and the Supreme Court
      Pregnancy Disability Legislation
      Controversy in the Feminist Legal Community
      Feminist Friends of the Court
      The Justices Speak

      6. Questioning Equality
      Knots and Entanglements
      Is Pregnancy So Different?

      7. The Equality Framework Extended
      The Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Women Workers
      Familiy and Medical Leave Legislation

      8. Difference as Strategy
      So Great a Change
      Strategizing for Justice
      Female-Specific Policy and Twentieth-Century Politics

      9. Beyond Equality versus Difference
      A Radical Edge
      The Critique of Equality
      Toward a Politics of Diversity

      10. Different but Not Unequal
      Motherhood and Policy
      Differential Consideration

      Notes
      Index

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