Lady Justice

Women, the law, and the battle to save America by Dahlia Lithwick (Penguin Press, 2022)

I picked this book up at the library after the author (a journalist specializing in legal isses) was interviewed about it on the Rachel Maddow Show. It was nice for me to be able to picture the author and her voice and mannerisms from television while reading this book. In each of the ten chapters Lithwick highlights the story of a woman lawyer whose work made a difference in achieving civil rights in the United States. Topics include voting rights, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, and others. The theme is unapologetically liberal and focused on the achievements of women in American law in the past fifty years. Lithwick espouses the philosophy that women (as a group) are better at certain things than men, which might be off-putting to some people. I suspect that people over 50, women especially, will relate to the book better than younger individuals.