2020.08.22 16:33
줄리 석(석지혜) CUNY 교수 'We the Women...' 출간
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줄리 석(석지혜) CUNY 교수 성 평등권 수정안 투쟁 여성사
'We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment' 출간
줄리 석(Julie Chi-hye Suk, 석지혜) 뉴욕시립대학교(CUNY) 교수가 8월 미국의 여성 평등권 수정안의 역사를 연구한 도서 'We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment'를 출간했다. 2020년은 미 여성의 투표권이 보장된 수정헌법 제 19조의 비준 100주년이 되는 해다. 줄리 석 교수는 100여년간 평등권 수정안(ERA)을 위해 투쟁했던 여성들을 조명하고 있다.
석 교수는 헌터고 졸업 후 하버드대에서 영문학과 불문학을 전공한 후 예일대 로스쿨, 옥스포드대 정치학 석박사 학위를 받았다. 카도조 법대 교수를 거쳐 CUNY 대학원 학장 겸 사회학과 교수 겸 예일대 법대 방문교수로 재직 중이다. 주요 논문으로 ‘여성주의 헌법주의와 모성 신앙’과 ‘21세기의 평등권 개정(Feminist Constitutionalism and the Entrenchment of Motherhood)’, ‘성별 고정 관념이 여성에 나쁠 것일까?(Are Gender Stereotypes Bad for Women? Rethinking Antidiscrimination Law and Work-Family Conflict)’ 등이 있다.
줄리 석 교수는 이영재(Youngjae Lee) 포담대 법대 교수와 사이에 두 아들을 두었다. 그는 뉴욕 위장내과 전문의 석창호씨와 최성남씨 부부의 3녀 중 차녀로 2010년 아시안 여성 최초로 하버드 법대 종신교수에 임명된 지니 석(Jeannie Suk, 석지영) 교수의 동생이기도 하다.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Women-Unstoppable-Mothers-Amendment/dp/1510755918
'We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment
Meet the brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the Constitution. Their stories reveal why the Equal Rights Amendment still matters in the twenty-first century.
The year 2020 marks the centennial the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s constitutional right to vote. But have we come far enough?
After passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, revolutionary women demanded full equality beyond suffrage, by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Congress took almost fifty years to adopt it in 1972, and the states took almost as long to ratify it. In January 2020, Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the amendment.
Why did the ERA take so long? Is it too late to add it to the Constitution? And what could it do for women?
A leading legal scholar tells the story of the ERA through the voices of the bold women lawmakers who created it. They faced opposition and subterfuge at every turn, but they kept the ERA alive. And, despite significant gains, the achievements of gender equality have fallen short, especially for working mothers and women of color. Julie Suk excavates the ERA’s past to guide its future, explaining how the ERA can address hot-button issues such as pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay.
The rise of movements like the Women’s March and #MeToo have ignited women across the country. Unstoppable women are winning elections, challenging male abuses of power, and changing the law to support working families. Can they add the ERA to the Constitution and improve American democracy?
We the Women shows how the founding mothers of the ERA and the forgotten mothers of all our children have transformed our living Constitution for the better.
About The Author
Julie C. Suk is a frequent commentator in the media on legal issues affecting women, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and CBS News. The House Judiciary Committee cited Suk’s article, “An Equal Rights Amendment for the Twenty-First Century: Bringing Global Constitutionalism Home” in its report leading to the House’s historic vote in 2020 to remove the ERA ratification deadline.
Suk is a professor of sociology, political science, and liberal Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she also serves as the academic dean overseeing the Graduate Center’s interdisciplinary master’s programs. Prior to joining The Graduate Center, Suk was a law professor for 13 years at Cardozo Law School in New York, and taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. In Fall 2020, she will be a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome. She has a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she studied on a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, where she held a Marshall Scholarship. She lives in New York City.
Raves and Reviews
“We talk as if only men make constitutions. Julie Suk changes this. She introduces us to the diverse cast of women constitution makers who supported, and opposed, the Equal Rights Amendment over the last century. Their quest showcases concerns missing in standard accounts of the Founding, and shows us how these concerns differed among women and over time. Essential reading for those interested in the future of gender justice.”
—REVA SIEGEL, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor, Yale Law School
“Julie Suk’s We the Women is a fascinating and nuanced recounting of the history of the ERA. It brings to light the many women who made constitutional equality for women across generations, highlighting complexities not widely known; documents the unending opposition; and showcases the potential of the ERA’s meaning for the twenty-first century. It will soon be recognized as the go-to resource for the ERA’s long legislative history.”
—LOUISE MELLING, Deputy Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
“Meticulously researched and compulsively readable, We the Women draws important connections between the past and present, making clear how, despite long odds and many obstacles, generations of women have come together to debate and demand the conditions necessary for a more perfect union.”
—MELISSA MURRAY, Frederick I. & Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
“In We the Women, Julie Suk shows us that the Equal Rights Amendment at its core was—and still is—about freedom and power. The mothers of the ERA laid the groundwork of the battle waging in this country today, and though this campaign can feel long and arduous, We the Women has left me more hopeful.”
—FATIMA GOSS GRAVES, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center
“Smart, readable, incisive. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand why we need the ERA. A must for students, activists, and anyone simply wanting to know the history of this hundred-year long fight. We The Women resurrects a diverse and brilliant cast of ERA foremothers. Suk gives us the ERA America needs right now—an amendment that takes into account the realities of motherhood, sexual harassment, and unequal pay. Suk convincingly persuades us that this essential recognition of women's equal standing in the nation has been denied too long—and is, at long last, within our grasp.”
—KIRSTEN SWINTH, author of Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family and Professor of History at Fordham University
“We the Women provides a riveting and nuanced history of women's fight for equality and enfranchisement in the United States. Julie Suk brilliantly threads together early suffragist movements with the continued fight for women's constitutional equality and ratification of the ERA. This timely book should be a companion to all readings on voting rights and in the hands of all students and readers of constitutional law.”
—MICHELE GOODWIN, Chancellor’s Professor, UC-Irvine, and author of Policing the Womb
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