Julie Novkov: 2 books
Racial Union
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was...
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women
Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system.
During...