TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jane Sherron De Mathews
TI  - RUTH BADER GINSBURG : Life
SN  - 9781913348496
U1  - 340.092 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Scribe
KW  - Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg -1933-2020
KW  -  American lawyer - Biography & Career
KW  - American lawyer and Jurist & 1st Female Law Professor
KW  - Law- Biography
KW  - United States. - Supreme Court - Officials and employees
KW  - Women judges -United States - Biography
KW  - Judges - United States - Biography
KW  - United States.- Supreme Court
KW  - Life and Legal Career
KW  - Employees
N1  - The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women.

In this comprehensive, revelatory biography — fifteen years of interviews and research in the making — historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence. At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs was her Jewish background, specifically the concept of tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to ‘repair the world’, with its profound meaning for a young girl who grew up during the Holocaust and World War II.

Ruth’s journey began with her mother, who died tragically young but  whose intellect inspired her daughter’s feminism. It stretches from Ruth’s days as a baton twirler at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School to Cornell University to Harvard and Columbia Law Schools; to becoming one of the first female law professors in the country and having to fight for equal pay and hide her second pregnancy to avoid losing her job; to becoming the director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and arguing momentous anti-sex-discrimination cases before the US Supreme Court.

All this, even before being nominated in 1993 to become the second woman on the Court, where her crucial decisions and dissents are still making history. Intimately, personably told, this biography offers unprecedented insight into a pioneering life and legal career whose profound impact will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond
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