Sherry Sharpnack: This book has been on my Kindle far too long for it to have remained unread. It is an unflinching look at the differences between the first two female justices on the Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
O'Connor was a WASP-y westerner w/ the "get on w/ life w/ no complaints" attitude. Her inability to practice law after graduating from law school simply b/c of her gender was appalling. Yet... she worked within the system in place at the time, finding her power in the avenue available to a woman married to a rich man at the time: volunteering for the Junior League and making her way into the Arizona Legislature before her unlikely appointment as a judge. She was probably the only Republican woman available at the time to fulfill Ronald Reagan's campaign promise of appointing the first female to SCOTUS. As a Supreme Court Justice, she examined the merits of each case, not looking to set precedents or fulfill any sort of political agenda. Oh, to have justices w/o political agendas these days!
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the OPPOSITE of Justice O'Connor in every way: a tiny, working-class (before she and her husband made millions), Jewish woman from Brooklyn,...
United States on Feb 21, 2022
Caoimhe: Very interesting insight into the way the law has shaped change for women in the US.
United Kingdom on Oct 04, 2018
Gary O’Dwyer: Gift
Canada on Jul 26, 2018
Amazon Customer: I thought it was an excellent book. I t clearly summarized the cases in which the two justices were involved.
United Kingdom on Jun 03, 2017
J. Baldwin: This book tells the stories of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first two women to be appointed to the US Supreme Court. Hirshman describes them as the "unambiguous heroines of the modern feminist movement" and provides much fascinating information about their personal lives and how they came to be appointed as Justices, She also offers a detailed assessment of their contribution to the Court's jurisprudence in securing equal rights for women.
The tone of the writing in Sisters in Law is rather too sycophantic for my taste, particularly in relation to Justice Ginsburg, and the author seems unable to decide whether she is writing a pot-boiler for popular consumption or engaging in serious legal analysis of the Supreme Court cases in which these two remarkable women have been involved. The writing is too chatty and informal (e.g. 'colleagues' are 'pals', 'chums' or 'buddies'; people are 'brainy' instead of 'clever') for the latter. And Hirshman resorts to too much hyperbole, too many mixed metaphors, and too many (ghastly) colloquialisms.
I also began to doubt the author's feminist credentials as she - very, very irritatingly and unnecessarily - so...
United Kingdom on May 15, 2017
Ronald H. Clark: This book turned out to offer much greater rewards than I had anticipated. I had thought it was largely a dual biography of Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg. And to be sure, there is a good solid amount of biographical analysis present here. But there is so much more as well. Primarily, the book is also a comprehensive history of the legal fights to achieve women's equality. The author, a law school grad with a Ph.D. as well, is quite well versed in this material. So be advised to expect a good deal of detailed legal analysis that goes along with the biographical material.
Much of the early portion of this nearly 400 page book is devoted to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her pioneering and lonely fight to attack legal discrimination against women beginning around 1970. Ginsburg, who directed the ACLU's Women's Rights Project (initially while teaching at Rutgers Law School; later a Columbia) chose to follow a "careful incremental strategy." Cases were carefully selected in order to develop a doctrinal bridge to the final goal. This is just one of the ways in which Ginsburg resembled Thurgood Marshall's strategy in the civil rights cases. Her ultimate goal was to get the Supreme Court...
United States on Oct 08, 2015
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| Total Reviews | 14 reviews | 708 reviews | 323 reviews |
| Best Sellers Rank | #24 in United States Judicial Branch#61 in Lawyer & Judge Biographies#1,190 in Women's Biographies | #348 in Political Conservatism & Liberalism#514 in Political Leader Biographies#3,675 in Memoirs | #9 in Women in Politics #259 in Women's Biographies#844 in Memoirs |
| Women's Biographies | Women's Biographies | Women's Biographies | |
| United States Judicial Branch | United States Judicial Branch | ||
| Dimensions | 5.31 x 0.97 x 8 inches | 6.38 x 1.03 x 9.58 inches; 1.18 Pounds | 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches; 1.25 Pounds |
| Item Weight | 11.2 ounces | ||
| Paperback | 432 pages | ||
| Language | English | English | English |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0062238474 | 978-1250271334 | 978-1637582350 |
| Lawyer & Judge Biographies | Lawyer & Judge Biographies | ||
| ISBN-10 | 0062238477 | 1250271339 | 1637582358 |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition | St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition | Post Hill Press |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2/5 stars of 1,263 ratings | 4.8/5 stars of 6,824 ratings | 4.8/5 stars of 4,467 ratings |
Spain on Aug 10, 2023