User:Cliotropic/Law and Policy in US Women's History

Scope of this subproject

Note: this is a draft at the moment while I assess how much interest there is in this subproject & how much time I have to give to it. If you'd like to take the lead on this subproject, go right ahead & contact me at my talk page.

This subproject, part of WikiProject Women's History, aims to improve the availability and quality of articles on Wikipedia about the history of United States law and policy related to women and their lives. The following are explicitly included as within scope:

• the history of state and federal case law and statutory law about women, marriage, divorce, and family
• effects of major changes in state and federal case law on historical women's lives
• the history of women's changing legal rights and responsibilities
• biographies and topical articles about women's work in government, civil service, and law
• women's political organizing on any issue, from any part of the political spectrum

The geographic and chronological scope of this project includes all areas now part of the US from European settlement until the recent historical past. To the extent that the US falls into the English common-law tradition, this project may also touch entries on UK and Commonwealth legal history.

Overall goals/tasks to be done

• Assess the quality of existing articles on legal/policy history relevant to women's lives, as part of WikiProject Women's History
• Improve the quality of articles on legal/policy history relevant to women's lives
• Ensure that impact of legal/policy changes on women are included in general articles, where appropriate
• Create new articles about individual historical women who were members of the bench and bar, if they do not already exist

Collaboration with other WikiProjects

We should look into collaborating with related wikiprojects/taskforces on this subject.

• TBD

General starting points

• TBD

Work to be done

General Topics

(Some of these entries have, or need, historical sections.)

• coverture
• dowry
• age of consent
• Seduction (tort)
• Divorce
• Marriage (perhaps a "History of Marriage in the US" entry is warranted?)
  • many of the entries in Marriage#See_also

Cases and Statutes

Colonial Period

• TBD

Early Republic / 19th Century

• TBD

20th Century

• Labor & the workplace:
  • Brandeis Brief
  • Muller v. Oregon (sex-specific labor legislation)
  • Equal Pay Act of 1963
  • Jenson v. Eveleth Mines (workplace sexual harrassment class action)

• Sexuality, Family, & Reproduction:
  • Note: Contentious entries. Likely to be an advanced exercise in Wikipedian diplomacy.
  • Griswold v. Connecticut
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Doe v. Bolton

• Other Civil Rights Cases:
  • Ex parte Endo (Does Mitsuye Endo need her own entry?)

Organizations

Goal:

• For each existing article, bring its quality up to at least "start" level (i.e. not a stub)
• For organizations which do not yet have articles, create one (non-stub)
• If organization is an offshoot of a non-women's one, ensure that the article for the non-women's one contains links to the women's one.

List of organizations:

• General Federation of Women's Clubs
• National American Women's Suffrage Association
• etc

Biographies

TBD

Miscellaneous

TBD

General resources

Online sources

The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:

• (to do)

Books etc

Add bibliographic references here, if you think they'll be useful to others.