women judges

Looks at the life of Ruth Ginsburg the second woman named to the United States Supreme Court.

A biography of Supreme Court justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But stopped Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their sights onto Ebadi's only weakness: those she loved the most, her family. First the authorities detained her daughter, then they laid a trap for her husband straight out of a spy novel. The Iranian government took everything from Shirin Ebadi--her marriage, her home, her property, her bank accounts, they even seized her Nobel Prize--but the one thing they could not take was her spirit and her desire for a better future for her country.

Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the first and second women to serve on the Supreme Court. They have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women. They have shaped the legal framework of modern feminism, setting precedents in cases dealing with employment discrimination, abortion, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and many other issues crucial to women's lives.

A coming-of-age profile of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who became the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court and overcame gender discriminaton and anti-semitism in order to achieve her appointment.

"[A] selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the work ways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law and lawyers in opera, and on the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution"--Provided by publisher.

Fiona Maye, a London judge approaching the age of sixty, is forced to confront her crumbling marriage while she faces a difficult case in which a seventeen-year-old boy dying of leukemia is denied blood transfusions by his parents due to the family's religious beliefs.

"Presents the biography of Sandra Day O'Connor against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.

In 1509 Ireland, Mara is sent to the independent kingdom of Burren to investigate the death of a man who was found dead two days after the May Day festival, but when she arrives, she has a hard time getting any of the people to discuss what has happened and is left to solve the mystery on her own.