Scholars Confront the Era

Joan Hoff-Wilson, ed. Rights of Passage: The Past and Future of the ERA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. xx + 140 pp. Illus. Mary Frances Berry. Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986 ix + 147 pp. Jane Mansbridge. Why We Lost the ERA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xii + 327 pp. At first glance, the defeat of the United States Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) would seem easy to explain. It lost because a majority of the American voting population opposed it, because many women feared that the ERA would end what they saw as their privileged status in the American legal system, and because male-dominated state legislatures did not believe that traditional gender roles should be changed

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