Women and Law

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You may contact Kristen Baginski, the course liaison, for research-related questions at kbaginski@law.umaryland.edu.

Primary Law | Agencies, Associations, and NGOs | Subscription Databases | Electronic Journals | Additional Electronic Resources | Brief Bibliography of Print Resources

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Primary Law

Legislative Materials

• United States Code(searchable full text)
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII
  • Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. 1681-1688
  • Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. 206(d)
• Congressional Record (searchable full text)
• Thomas
• Maryland Code

Administrative Materials

• Code of Federal Regulations (searchable full text)
  • List of Sections Affected
• Executive Order 11246 - Equal Employment Opportunity
• Executive Order 11375 - Gender Discrimination in the Federal Government
• Federal Register (searchable full text)
• EEOC Regulations
• Maryland Regulations (COMAR Online)
• Maryland Register Online

Judicial Materials

• Supreme Court Cases (Cornell's Legal Information Institute-LII)
• Supreme Court (official site)
• Maryland Appellate Courts - decisions.

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Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations

• The Alan Guttmacher Institute
• American Bar Association. Commission on Women in the Profession
• Antigone: AALS Section on Women in Legal Education
  
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  
• Equal Rights Advocates
  
• The Feminist Majority Foundation 
  
• Feminist News from Feminist Faxnet
  
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
  
• Insitute for Women's Leadership
• National Association of Women Lawyers
  
• National Organization of Women
  
• National Women's Law Center
  
• The White House Project
• Women's Law Center of Maryland
  

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Subscription Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  A general academic tool providing access to the full text of more than 2,500 journals.
• BNA's U.S. Law Week
  Tracks every Supreme Court petition and case on the docket and highlights important federal and state legal developments across specialized fields.
• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
  Full text bibliographic database which indexes articles from legal journals and also indexes law books.
• LegalTrac
  Index to legal journals, periodicals and serials.
• Statistical Universe
  Access to all statistics issued by the U.S. government from 1973 to the present, selected statistics from private and state government sources from 1980 to the present, and selected titles from international intergovernmental organizations from 1983 to the present.

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Electronic Journals

• ABA Journal Coverage: v. 71- (1985- ).
• American Journal of Sociology
  Coverage: v. 96- (1990- ).
• American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law Coverage: v. 7-9 (1999-2001). (continues American University Journal of Gender & the Law) Password required off campus.
• Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
  Coverage: v. 4- (1997- ).
• Feminist Economics Coverage: v. 3- (1997-12 months ago).
• Feminist Review
  Coverage: Iss. 40- (1992- ).
• Feminist Studies: FS Coverage: v. 16, iss. 1- (1990- ).
• Gender & Society
  Coverage: v. 13- (1999- ).
• Gender and Education
  Coverage: v. 2- (1990-three months ago).
• Gender Issues
  Coverage: v. 16- (1998-six months ago).
• Gender, Work, and Organization Coverage: v. 5- (1998-12 months ago).
• Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
  Coverage: v. 1-36 (1966-2001).
• Harvard Women's Law Journal
  Coverage: v. 1-24 (1978-2001).
• Journal of Gender, Race & Justice
  Coverage: v. 1-5 (1997-2000).
• Journal of Women's History
  Coverage: v. 4- (1992- ).
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Additional Electronic Resources

• Center for Women's Global Leadership: Rutgers
• The Evolution of Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
• Hieros Gamos: Women and the Law
  
• Institute for Women's Leadership: Rutgers
• Sexuality, Gender, and the Law: National and International 
• Status of Women in the States/2002 - Amy B. Caiazza
  
• Women in International Law: Research Resources
• Women in Law: Useful Links
• Women's Law Associations Page (Louisiana State University)
• Women in Legal Education (Washburn University School of Law)

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Bibliography

The following is a partial list of the Women and Leadership related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The material is listed by main entry with the title and/or author information in bold type. The Library also contains a complete set of United States Codes, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.

Books:

The American woman, 2001-2002 : getting to the top / edited by Cynthia B. Costello and Anne J. Stone for the Women's Research & Education Insitute
New York : Norton, c2001.
General Stacks HQ1421 .A475 2001

Beyond the double bind : women and leadership / Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
General Stacks HQ1237 .J36 1995

Gender, law and social justice : international perspectives. Edited by Ann Stewart.  
Imprint: London : Blackstone, 2000.
GEN STACKS K349.G82 2000

Gender power, leadership, and governance / edited by Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mae Kelly.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995.
General Stacks HQ1236 .G462 1995

Pathways to leadership : an ABA road map.
Chicago, Ill.: ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, [1997]
General Stacks KF325.A6 P3 1997

ARTICLES:

Celebrating 30 years of women's rights law: a tribute to women lawyers and activists: symposium. 23 Women's Rights Law Reporter 201-53 (Summer/Fall 2002).

The 45th session of the Commission on the Status of Women: Gender Discrimination and the AIDS Pandemic, J. Alfred. 18 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 439-47 (2002).

Heterosexism and internalized racism among Afican Americans: the connections and considerations for African American Lesbians and bisexual women: a clinical psychological perspective, B.A. Greene. 54 Rutgers Law Review 931-57 (2002).

Prescripton contraceptives: educate yourself on the discrimination you may be suffering because you work for a private educational institution, C.A. Danner. 31 Journal of Law and Education 513-22 (2002).

Social history of everyday practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the incorporation of black women into the American legal profession, 1925-1960, K.W. Mack. 87 Cornell Law Review 1405-74 (2002).

Something to remember, something to celebrate: women at Columbia Law School, B.A. Black. 102 Columbia Law Review 1451-68 (2002).

30 Years of women's rights litigation: an evolving constitutional standard of review, L.M. Lapidus. 23 Women's Rights Law Reporter 237-41 (Summer/Fall 2002).

Time to get on with it, R. McMillion. 88 American Bar Association Journal 66 (August 2002).

When a woman's marital status determined her legal status: a research guide on the common law doctorine of coverture, C. Zaher. 94 Law Library Journal 459 (2002).

Women and pension reform: economic insecurity and old age, L. Schmall. 35 The John Marshall Law Review 673-707 (2002).

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This page was created by Lisa Wagenheim and updated by Kristen Baginski Spring 2007