Carol Sanger

Girls and the Getaway: Cars, Culture, and the Predicament of Gendered Space

What is the legal significance of the social significance of things? How does the law comprehend, affect, reinforce, transform, and undermine the relations between persons and things? In this Essay I examine these questions by looking at connections between one particular thing - the automobile - and one particular group of persons - women. How is it that the automobile has come to serve women - as drivers, passengers, as purchasers - less well than men? After all, in some sense a car is a gender neutral machine seemingly capable of taking drivers of either sex equal distances. But how long after the first one was welded together did it shed any pretense of such neutrality? How did that transformation come about and what has law made of the results?

Curriculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography and Early American Women Lawyers

In this review, Carol Sanger examines the recent surge of interest in the lives of early women lawyers. Using Jane Friedmans biography of Myra Bradwell, Americas First Woman Lawyer, as a starting point, Professor Sanger explores the complexities for the feminist biographer of reconciling for herself and for her subject conflicting professional, political, and personal sensibilities. Professor Sanger concludes that to advance the project of womens history, feminist biographers ought not retreat to the comforts of commemorative Victorian biography, even for Victorian subject, but should instead strive to present and accept early women subjects on their own complex terms.

Seasoned to the Use

In this essay I argue that through the powerful coincidence of popularity, genre, and theme, Presumed Innocent and The Good Mother reinforce notions about the relation between good sex and bad mothering, and advance serious, nonfiction messages for women about law and sex.

Gender and rights

Part of a series examining philosophical, political, and legal concepts of rights and systems of rights articulation, interpretation, protection, and enforcement, this volume is dedicated to issues arising from the intersection of gender and rights. Editors Rhode (Stanford Law School) and Sanger (Columbia U. School of Law) present 28 essays under t