Linda R. Hirshman Books in Order

Hirshman and Larson examine how law, religion, and social institutions shape power in heterosexual relationships. Their history of sexual regulation leads to arguments about autonomy and proposals for changing the rules governing intimate bargaining.

This guide addresses women's choices and challenges from law-school applications through early legal careers. It combines school comparisons, study strategies, professional preparation, and accounts of student experience to examine how institutional culture affects opportunities for success.

Hirshman challenges the idea that leaving paid employment is simply an individual choice without wider consequences. Her manifesto combines criticism of prevailing feminist arguments with proposals for women seeking economically rewarding and personally meaningful work.

Hirshman traces the American gay-rights movement through activism, cultural change, and the campaign for marriage equality. Interviews and historical analysis examine how organizers built political influence and challenged institutions that had excluded them.

A dual biography follows Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg into a profession that long excluded women. Hirshman examines their different paths, their relationship on the Supreme Court, and their influence on law and women's equality.

Hirshman traces the struggle against sexual abuse and workplace harassment from the 1970s through the rise of MeToo. She examines legal strategies, political conflicts, and activism that gradually made public accountability possible.

Hirshman examines the alliance and eventual rupture among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman. Their personal conflicts reveal racial prejudice and struggles for power within the abolition movement, alongside its changing political strategy.