Contents : Women and constitutional interpretation : the forgotten value of civic friendship /Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach --Representation of women in the Constitution /Jan Lewis --Declarations of independence : women and divorce in the early republic /Norma Basch --Explanation lies in property : gender and its connection to economic considerations /Carol Berkin --Women, bondage, and the reconstructed Constitution /Peggy Cooper Davis --Unkept promise of the Thriteenth Amendment : a call for reparations /Adjoa Aiyetoro --Culture of work enforcement : race, gender and U.S. welfare police /Frances Fox Piven --Silent Constitution : affirmative obligation and the feminization of poverty /Federalism(s), feminism, families, and the Constitution /Judith Resnik --What's privacy got to do with it? A comparative approach to the feminist critique /Martha C. Nussbaum --Women's human rights and the U.S. Constitution : initiating a dialogue /Carol C. Gould --Battered women, feminist lawmaking, privacy, and equality /Elizabeth M. Schneider --Infringements of women's constitutional rights in religious lawmaking on abortion /Lucinda Joy Peach --What place for family privacy? /Martha Albertson Fineman --Right to privacy and gay/lesbian sexuality : beyond decriminalization to equal recognition /David A.J. Richards --Gender of discrimination : race, sex, and fair employment /Eileen Boris --Second generation employment discrimination : a structural approach /Susan Sturm --Our economy of mothers and others : women and economics revisited /Joan Williams --Women and citizenship : the Virginia Military Institute case /Philippa Strum --"Heightened scrutiny" : An alternative route to constitutional equality for U.S. women /Cynthia Harrison --Whatever happened to the ERA /Jane Mansbridge.