Introduction : telling stories to courts : women claim their legal rights / Hidden histories, racialized gender and the legacy of reconstruction : the story of United States v. Cruikshank / "When the trouble started" : the story of Frontiero v. Richardson / Single-sex public schools : the story of Vorchheimer v. School District of Philadelphia / Unconstitutionally male? : the story of United States v. Virginia / Infertile by force and federal complicity : the story of Relf v. Weinberger / "Nearly allied to her right to be"--Medicaid funding for abortion : the story of Harris v. McRae / Pregnant and working : the story of California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra / "What not to wear"--race and unwelcomeness in sexual harassment law : the story of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson / Of glass ceilings, sex stereotypes and mixed motives : the story of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins / Six cases in search of a decision : the story of In re Marriage Cases / State enabled violence : the story of Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez / The entry of women into Wall Street law firms : the story of Blank v. Sullivan & Cromwell / A tribal court domestic violence case : the story of an unknown victim, an unreported decision, and an all too common injustice