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NOTES TO 9. LIBERAL FEMINIST NI l'l'ES TO 10. WOMEN A
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FUNCTIONALISM
84. The Subjection of Women, p.477. bl 1111'111 to Weisstein for directing me to the examples that
8 5. The Subjection of Women, p. 479.
1 l I i , C:oromitment required of a woman entering a scien-
86. This is clear from the way he argues (Tl1r ,II
Women, p. 483) that the husband should earn the 11111111 1 111l l'Mil1n in present day American society," Woman and
(since most working class women then as now 11111I , /, 11 t lfir: Professions, The MIT Symposium on American
whether to work outside the home or not), as wrll 111 rn, 11 111 Science and Engineering, ed. J. Mattfeld and C. Van
fact that the general preoccupations of his femiuiI wtl 11 I ,11111bridge, Mass.,1965,p. 15.
mainly the concerns of middle-class women, rad1r1 th 1111 /1'11ar of Being a Woman, New York, 1964, p. 714.
such as wages, which he was well aware were far 1owrt f 1111111 1 and Outer Space: Reflections on Womanhood."
than men (Principles of Political Economy, pp. 1
111111 1 and Outer Space," 596.
87. Letter to Emile de Laveleye, September 1111111 1 nnd Outer Space," 604.
Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 17, p. 1638. 1111111 :ind Outer Space," 605.
88. The Subjection of Women, p. 4 79. I I I II111r and Outer Space," 588-593.
89 . The Subjection of Women, p. 484. lt111tr and Outer Space," 598-599.
90. Letter to Isabella Beecher Hooker, Sepw111l1r1 i l11111r and Outer Space," 586.
Later Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 17, p. 1640. I 1111tr :md Outer Space," 598 (emphasis added).
91. Letter to Princess Marie Stcherbatov and A-111 ! l"l '111111-r and Outer Space," 593.
cember 18, 1868, Later Letters, Collected Worhs, V111 1 I 11111ily, Socialization and Interaction Process, p. 22.
92. The Subjection of Women, pp. 473-474, 1JHtt 111 1 for example, Ann Oakley, Woman's Work, pp. 178-
93. Essays on Sex Equality, pp. 73-77 (emphllijlN 11111h ,I j11ll1'1 Mitchell, Woman's Estate, pp. u6-117.
94. The Subjection of Women, p. 482. 111111/y, Socialization, pp. 12-15; "Age and Sex in the Social
95. Essays on Sex Equality, p.105,text and not(i, of the United States," 605, 608-609.
96. The Subjection of Women, pp. 502, 514-51n, 111 1,1 11 nnd Sex," 605.
superintendence of a household ... requires inctNHHIII , I Hf' 11nd Sex," 609.
an eye which no detail escapes, and presents (Jlll'Hll11111 I 11 / 11111i/y, Socialization, p. 129.
97. Later Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 14 1 p. 111, , 11 ,,,un11.'s Work, pp. 181-185.
98. Essays on Sex Equality, p. 107. , , ,,, '' l'. Socialization, p. 23.
334 335
NOTES TO 9. LIBERAL FEMINIST NI )'l'i':S TO 10. WOMEN AUFUNCTIONALISM
8 4. The Subjection of Women, p. 477. i iI 1111' 1 11 to Weisstein for directing me to the examples that
85. The Subjection of Women, p. 479.
86. This is clear from the way he argues (Tl11 811/, 11 1 11 Commitment required of a woman entering a scien-
Women, p. 483) that the husband should earn the fllmll 1111il11HNlon in present clay American society," Woman and
(since most working class women then as now 11111I H , 1, 11/ifi,c Professions, The MIT Symposium on American
whether to work outside the home or not), as wtll NI ,1111 111 Science and Engineering, ed. J. Mattfeld and C. Van
fact that the general preoccupations of his feminiI Wl'I ,1 1 :11111lnidge,Mass.,1965,p. 15.
mainly the concerns of middle-class women, ratl1c1 th I /111 l1'1 nr of Being a Woman, New York, 1964, p. 714.
1
such as wages, which he was well aware were far lowrt f 111111 1' and Outer Space: Reflections on Womanhood."
1
than men (Principles of Political Economy, pp. /!IM 1111111 1 and Outer Space," 596.
87. Letter to Emile de Laveleye, September 11, 111 11111111 nnd Outer Space," 604.
Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 17, p. 1638. 1111111 and Outer Space," 605.
88. The Subjection of Women, p. 479. ii 'l1111nr :.ind Outer Space," 588-593.
89. The Subjection of Women, p. 484. 111111'1' :.ind Outer Space," 598-599.
90. Letter to Isabella Beecher Hooker, SepL1111l1r1 1 1
1111111 and Outer Space," 586.
Later Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 17, p. 1640, 1
I 11111\I' and Outer Space," 598 (emphasis added).
91. Letter to Princess Marie Stcherbatov and "111 I 11111tr and Outer Space," 593.
0
cember 18, 1868, Later Letters, Collected Works, V11l 1 I ,11111/y, Socialization and Interaction Process, p. 22.
92. The Subjection of Women, pp. 473-474, ijHtt Ill 11111,, for example, Ann Oakley, Woman's Work, pp. 178-
93. Essays on Sex Equality, pp. 73-77 (emplrnsi1' 1111111 ti 111ll1'1 Mitchell, Woman's Estate, pp. u6-117.
94. The Subjection of Women, p. 482: 11111/ly, Socialization, pp. 12-15; "Age and Sex in the Social
95. Essays on Sex Equality, p. 105,text and n0IC, 1,11111111 of I.he United States," 605, 608-609.
96. The Subjection of Women, pp. 502, 514-5ltj, 111 11 1 1\w nnd Sex," 605.
superintendence of a household . .. requires inc't'Nltlll , 1 11 'A1v 11nd Sex," 609.
an eye which no detail escapes, and presents q11tNll1111 I 11 / 11111 ily, Socialization, p. 129.
sideration and solution, foreseen and unforeseeu, 111 1 I 1 1 t I A w :ind Sex," 613.
the day, from which the person responsible for I 111 1111 1 ,oi \ I', (' :ind Sex," 610.
ever shake herself free. " 1 I ,1111il y . Socialization, p. 15,and note 13.
97. Later Letters, Collected Works, Vol. 14, p. 1M, 1 II ,.1111111.'s Work, pp. 181-185.
98. Essays on Sex Equality, p. 107. , "",I\'. Socialization, p. 23.
336 337
NOTES TO 11. PERSONS, WOMEN AND THE LAW NOTES TO 11. PERSONS, WOMEN AND THE LAW
26. Family, Socialization, pp. 43, 63. similar vein, Senator Sam Ervin regards the Equal Rights Amend
27. Family, Socialization, pp. 35,80, 94,98, 387. ment as an attempt to "repeal the handiwork of God." Quoted in
28. Family, Socialization, p. 51, Fig. 4. Kanowitz, Sex Roles in Law and Society, p. 45.
14. 83 U.S. 130, 141.
15. Tigner v. Texas, 310 U.S.,141, 147.
CHAPTER 11 16. For brief discussions of this, see for example Brown, et al.,
"The Equal ights Amendment,"8']9-880; DeCrow, Sexist Justice,
I. In 1872, only four years after ratification of the Fourteenth pp. 38-39; Ginsburg, Constitutional Aspects of Sex-Based Dis
Amendment, the Supreme Court stated that it was very unlikely crimination, pp. 62-63, citing appellant's brief in Reed v. Reed; I I
that any type of discrimination other than racial would be held and Kanowitz, Sex Roles, p. 486. The quotations in this para
to come within the purview of the Equal Protection Clause. Ruth graph are from key cases discussed in these sources: Korematsu v. 1111
B. Ginsburg, Constitutional Aspects of Sex-Based Discrimination, U.S., 323 U.S. 214, 216 (1944), McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S.
p. 10. Their prediction was, of course, subsequently proved 184, 186 (1965), and Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 11 (1967). I 1:
wrong. am grateful to Samuel Krislov for clarifying this issue for me.
2. Constitutional Aspects, p. 3. 17. In White v. Crook, 1966, the U.S. District Court said "jury I
3. Bunim v. Bunim, 298, N.Y. 391, quoting Maynard v. Hill, service on the part of the citizens of the United States is con
125 U.S. 190,205. sidered under our law in this country as one of the basic rights
4. 75 Ariz. 308, 309, quoted in Leo Kanowitz, Women and the and obligations of citizenship." 251 F. Supp. 401. In Eisenstadt v.
Law: The Unfinished Revolution, p. 50. Baird, a person was held to have a right "to be free from unwar
5. Quoted in M. Gruberg, Women in American Politics, Osh ranted governmental intrusion into matters so affecting a person
il1
It
kosh, Wisc., 1968, p. 4. as the decision to bear or beget a child." 405 U.S. 438, 453. In
6. Book 1, Chap. 15, pp. 468-470, 2nd American ed., Boston, 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that "the right to work for I
1799 a living in the common occupations of the community is of the
1
I
7. Commentaries, p. 471. very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was
8. See below,for example, at note 14. of the purpose of the (14th) Amendment to secure." Truax v. I
9. Forbush v. Wallace, U.S. District Court, M.D. Alabama, Raich, 239 U.S. 33, 41.
N.D., 1971, 341 F. Supp. 241, quoted in Kanowitz, Sex Roles in 18. 208 U.S. 412.
Law and Society, pp. 517-520. 19. Lochner v. N.Y. 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
10. In re Lockwood, 154 U.S. 116 (emphasis added). 20. Women and the Law, p. 153.
11. Commonwealth v. Welosky, 276 Mass. 398, cert. denied, 21. Quoted in Ginsburg, pp. 12-13,n. 1.
284 U.S. 684 (1932). 22. The brief was actually to a large extent the work of
12. Bradwell v. The State, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 130 (1872). The Josephine Goldmark.
expression "the sex" was a not uncommon, and clearly deprecat 23. 208 U.S.,412,421.
ing, nineteenth-century mode of referring to the female sex. 24. 208 U.S.,412,421.
13. The Creator was cited as an authority as recently as 1970 2 5. 208 U.S.,412,421-422.
by the Oregon Court of Appeals. "The Creator took care of classi 26. Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677, 684 (1973).
fying men and women differently," the Court argued, "and if 27. Women and the Law, p. 154.
the legislature accepts these differences in a matter like this, we 28. Murray and Eastwood,"Jane Crow and the Law," 237.
are not prepared to say that the classifications made were without 29 . Goesaert v. Cleary, 335 U.S. 464,
good reason." State v. Bearcub, Or. App., 465 P.2d 253. In a 30. 335 U.S. 464,aq66.
340 341
NOTES TO 12. CONCLUSIONS
NOTES TO l l. PERSONS, WOMEN AND THE LAW
CHAPTER 12
them so unequally. See "The Supreme Court, 1974 Term," Har
vard Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, 96-103, for a critical treatment
I. See Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory,
of the Court's decisions in the earlier cases.
53. Geduldig v. Aiel!o, 4 17 U.S. 484 (1974). Cambridge, 1970, pp. 31-35, and Dennis F. Thompson, John
54. "Pregnancy and the Constitution: The Uniqueness Trap," Stuart Mill and Representative Government, Princeton, 1976,
pp. 36-43, for discussion of Mill's ideas about political education
1562.
55. Geduldig, at 496, Note 20. through direct participation. ,
56. General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125 (1976) (em 2. The Liberal Theory of Justice, Oxford, 1973, p. 166.
3 . See, e.g., cases referred to in note 52, of Chap. 11, above.
phasis added). See also Nashville Gas Company v. Satty, 434 U.S. 4. An obvious example of this is found in local zoning ordi
136 (1977), in which the Court again decided, citing Gilbert, that
nances, which frequently limit the number of unrelated, though
the exclusion of pregnancy from an otherwise inclusive disability
benefits plan is "not a gender-based discrimination at all," but not the number of related, persons who may live in any housing
unit. For a criticism of the general prejudice of our society in
ruled that, for seniority purposes, pregnancy leave could not be
favor of monogamy, see John McMurtry, "Monogamy: A Critique."
treated differently from other forms of leave. A majority of the
5. Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Pars. 158-181, pp. 110-122.
Court thus appears to be treading a fine line here, which is aptly
Hegel explicitly says that "the family becomes one person" (Re
summarized by Justice Stevens in his (regretfully) concurring
mark to Par. 163, p. 112). He says that "marriage results from
opinion:
the free surrender by both sexes of their personality" (Par. 168,
Although the Gilbert Court was unwilling to hold that dis
p. 115), but the fact that the man manages the family property,
crimination against pregnancy-as compared with other
and is its sole representative in the public sphere, suggests that
physical disabilities-is discrimination on account of sex, it
his surrender of his personality is more symbolic than real. For
may nevertheless be true that discrimination against pregnant
the correspondence of men to animals and of women to plants,
or formerly pregnant employees-as compared with other
see Add. 107 to Par. 166, p. 263.
employees-does constitute sex discrimination (Nashville,
6. See Gordon Schochet, Patriarchalism in Political Thought.
at 155).
57. General Electric, at 162. 7. Elites and Society, Harmondsworth, England, 1964, pp. 121-
122.
58. "Pregnancy and the Constitution," 1563-1564.
59. This mode of reasoning about legal discrimination between 8. "A Theory of Stable Democracy," Appendix B to Division
and Cohesion in Democracy, Princeton, 1966, pp. 232-269. I am
the sexes is, of course, not unique to judges. In a clear ratification
grateful to Peter Stillman, of Vassar College, for pointing out
,.- of such functionalism, Senator Ervin has proposed that the Equal
this example to me.
Rights Amendment be worded so as to allow legal distinctions 9. Division and Cohesion, pp. 262-263 and 265.
between the sexes which are "based on physiological or func
IO. Division and Cohesion, pp. 160-161.
tional differences between them." Women and the "Equal Rights"
I I. Division and Cohesion, p. 237.
Amendment, ed. Catherine Stimpson, Bowker/CIS Congressional