Jill Elaine Hasday presents We the Men in conversation with June Carbone

In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for "We the People", too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only We the Men. A long line of judges, politicians, and other influential voices have ignored women's struggles for equality or distorted them beyond recognition by wildly exaggerating American progress. Even as sexism continues to warp constitutional law, political decision making, and everyday life, prominent Americans have spent more than a century proclaiming that the United States has already left sex discrimination behind.
Jill Elaine Hasday's We the Men is the first book to explore how forgetting women's struggles for equality—and forgetting the work America still has to do—perpetuates injustice, promotes complacency, and denies how generations of women have had to come together to fight for reform and against regression. Hasday argues that remembering women's stories more often and more accurately can help the nation advance toward sex equality. These stories highlight the persistence of women's inequality and make clear that real progress has always required women to disrupt the status quo, demand change, and duel with determined opponents.
America needs more conflict over women's status rather than less. Conflict has the power to generate forward momentum. Patiently awaiting men's spontaneous enlightenment does not. Transforming Americas dominant stories about itself can reorient our understanding of how women's progress takes place, focus our attention on the battles that are still unwon, and fortify our determination to push for a more equal future.

Jill Elaine Hasday is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes about anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, family law, and legal history. Hasday graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

We the Men is Hasday’s third book. She also wrote Family Law Reimagined (Harvard University Press 2014) and Intimate Lies and the Law (Oxford University Press 2019). Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award for “the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year” and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships.

Hasday’s articles have appeared in many leading law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review.

June Carbone is the Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. She has previously been the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good at Santa Clara University Law. She received her J.D. from the Yale Law School, and her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She has written From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law (2000), Family Law with Leslie Harris and Rachel Rebouche (2022), Red Families v. Blue Families (2010), and Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family (Press, 2014), both with Naomi Cahn, Fair Shake: Women’s Fight for a Just Economy (2024), with Naomi Cahn and Nancy Levit, and co-edited the International Survey of Family Law with Robin Wilson.

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