BLS Library Digital Book Displays

America's First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell (2019)

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (2022)

Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law (2019)

A Courtroom of Her Own: The Life and Work of Judge Mary Anne Richey (1998)

Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin (2011)

Elena Kagan: A Biography (2014)

Excluded & Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Towards Equity (2023)

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The First Fifteen: How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges (2021)

First: Sandra Day O'Connor (2019)

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (2019)

Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story (2021)

Memoir: U.S. Senator and attorney Mazie K. Hirono.

Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges (2023)

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (2018)

Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity (2017)

Lawyers at Work (2012)

The author is BLS alumnus Clare Cosslett, Principal at Cosslett & Company.

Contents includes: Anne Vladeck (Employment) -- Jacalyn F. Barnett (Family Law) -- Peri Lynne Johnson (International Law) -- Kate Romain (Cross-Border M&A) .

Lovely One: A Memoir (c2024)

My Beloved World (2013)

My Own Words (2016)

Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors (2021)

Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life (2020)

Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers (2013)

Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers (1998)

Reflections of a Domestic Violence Prosecutor: Suggestions for Reform (2012)

The author is BLS alumnus Michelle Kaminsky, Chief of the Gender Based Violence Division at the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney's Office.

Remembering Florence Victoria Lucas, Civil Rights Pioneer: An Authorized Biography (c2020)

She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics (2024)

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law (2018)

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (2019)

Women and the Law Stories (2011)

Book co-edited by BLS Professor Liz Schneider.
Includes chapter: The Entry of Women Into Wall Street Law Firms: The Story of Blank v. Sullivan & Cromwell.

37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (2022)

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine that Ignited a Revolution (2023)

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It (2023)

All Things Being Equal: The Genesis, Costs and Aftermath of the USWNT's Equal Pay Battle (2024)

The Borders of Violence: Temporary Migration and Domestic and Family Violence (2025)

This is an open access ebook available through OAPEN Home.

Challenging Confinement: Mass Incarceration and the Fight for Equality in Women's Prisons (2023)

Contested Equality: International and Comparative Legal Perspectives (2024)

This is an open access ebook available through vendor Elgar Online.
Includes: Ch. 5: Advancing Access to Social Security: Maternity Protection and Social Justice for Women in the Informal Economy -- Janine Hicks.

Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (2024)

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot (2022)

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias: Gray Mist Killings (2024)

This is an open access ebook available through OAPEN Home.

The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice (1st ed. 2024)

This is an open access ebook available through OAPEN Home.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Although the legislation is Australian-based, the issues raised by each are recognisably global, and are reflected in the legislation of most other nations."

Feminist Pragmatism and Social Rights: From Jane Addams to Frances Perkins (2024)

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment (2022)

Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (c2023)

Gender Law and Policy (c2021)

Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963 (2021)

Gendered Peace through International Law (2024)

This is an open access ebook available through OAPEN Home.

The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey (2024)

The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers (2017)

Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (2023)

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (2022)

A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out (2004)

A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship (1998)

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2022)

The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (2022)

The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood (2024)

Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy of this book.

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (2017)

Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935 (1997)

Reassessing Feminist Legal Theories (2024)

BLS Library provides 3 digital copies.

Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The volume is a result of a much-needed effort to rethink traditional legal concepts in a gender-sensitive and gender competent manner. The book deals with topics as jurisprudence and gender, feminist approaches to jurisprudence: liberalism, difference, dominance, anti-essentialism, postmodernism, positivism, natural law, feminist jurisprudence, developments in feminist legal theory as well as feminist critiques of traditional legal concepts."

Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Analysis (2024)

This is an open access ebook provided by vendor Elgaronline.

Rethinking Feminist History and Theory: Essays on Gender, Class, and Labour (2025)

Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Rethinking Feminist History and Theory considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This vibrant collection, inspired by the work of historian and women's studies scholar Joan Sangster, features essays from academics across multiple disciplines, highlighting the dynamism of feminist historical scholarship in Canada."

Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion (2024)

Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library is investigating whether this book should be included in an Oxford ebook collection.

#SAYHERNAME: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence (2024)

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power, 1619 to 1969 (2021)

Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (2023)

Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (2010)

There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou (2025)

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (2017)

Trade Agreements and Women: Transcending Barriers (2025)

An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's Rights (2021)

We Dissent: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan on Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court's Decision Banning Abortion (2022)

Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library is in the process of ordering digital access through vendor EBSCO.

We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (2025)

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival (2021)

The Wealth of Women: Understanding Islamic Financial Laws (2025)

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (1997)

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back (2021)

Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.

Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (2015)

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 (2009)

Women and the Law Stories (2011)

Book co-edited by recently retired BLS Professor Elizabeth Schneider.

Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600–1800 (2019)

Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW (2024)

This ebook is available to multiple BLS users in one of BLS Library's Oxford ebook collections.

You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America (2024)

Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.