Linda Hirshman on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg-Sandra Day O'Connor Double Helix

Our Q&A with the author.

The line that threads Linda Hirshman’s last book, on the gay rights movement, to her latest, Sisters in Law, a dual biography on the lives and careers of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor, is social change. “I’m interested in how people make social change,” she tells FishbowlDC, “and one of the ways they make social change is by working together, so I’m always looking for relationships.”

For Hirshman, O’Connor and Ginsburg, the first two women to serve on the Supreme Court, were the perfect pair through which to show how the women’s rights movement had been shaped by the legal system.

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