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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

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Religion and the Media
Faith Angle Conference -- Dec. 2007

Michael CromartieEPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December at the biannual 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.

Religion and Secularism: The American Experience -- EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay, a distinguished professor of intellectual history, speaks on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America and argues for a distinction between two types of secularism.

The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election -- John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzes recent surveys and suggests that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring.

Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know -- Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't discusses the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States. 

Liberating the Limerick

God's plan made a hopeful beginning
But man spoiled his chances by sinning
We trust that the story
Will end in God's glory
But at present, the other side's winning
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest W. Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature." Click here to read more.