In Memoriam: Leo Kanowitz (1926-2007)

In 1969 at the dawn of the modern feminist movement, Kanowitz wrote Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution, a pioneering law book about sex discrimination. It was the first extensive study of women's legal status in the civil rights era and became a reference work for feminist scholars and activists.

Kanowitz's book, the first of several he wrote on the subject, was cited in congressional testimony by supporters of the never-ratified ERA and has been widely quoted in court rulings. One was a 1985 California Supreme Court decision by now-deceased Chief Justice Rose Bird that outlawed "ladies' night" price discounts.

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