The Sisterhood: The Inside Story of the Women’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen.

COHEN, Marcia [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

$5,500.00

Item Number: 146275

Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.

Early edition of this brilliant record of feminist history, with a new foreword by the author, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, “To the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsberg [sic] with years of gratitude – Marcia Cohen, 8/25/2017.” The recipient, American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.”, a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996) which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s  male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000) in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so.  In fine condition with the lightest rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.

"'The Sisterhood' is more than a compelling portrait of the early days of the contemporary women's movement. It is filled with reminders, some of which now seem astonishing, of the barriers that stood between women and equality" (Jeff Greenfield, CBS News). "['The Sisterhood'] is a benchmark book that I want to nail to my daughter's bedside, read out loud to my sons" (Phyllis Theroux, Author of 'Peripheral Visions).