Sex-Based Discrimination: Text, Cases and Materials

by Herma Hill Kay, Martha S. West

Discusses First Amendment limitations on efforts to prevent sex discrimination in the context of private clubs and pornography. Focuses on sex role differences in family settings and significance by state law. Discusses Jaycee B., the California case involving a surrogate not genetically related to the child, and two anonymous egg and sperm donors. Includes Fourth Circuit opinions in U.S. v. Virginia Military Institute . Looks at prosecuting women's abuse cases and using the battered women's syndrome in women's claims of self-defense in criminal actions.

1309 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981