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Before she became the Notorious RBG famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gender equality before the high court in the 1970s Beginning with Reed v Reed 1971for which Ginsburg wrote her first full Supreme Court brief and which was the first time the Court held a sexbased classification to be unconstitutionalGinsburg became known for her work on the issue of gender equality Ginsburg established the Womens Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972 and coedited the first law school casebook on sex discrimination as a professor at Columbia Law School

Drawing on interviews with RBG and those who knew her as well as extensive knowledge of the cases themselves Philippa Strum has provided a legal history of Ginsburgs landmark litigation on behalf of womens rights and gender equality Those cases changed the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and along with two Supreme Court cases of the 1980s and 1990s Mississippi v Hogan and United States v Virginia remain the foundation of constitutional gender jurisprudence today On Account of Sex shows why RBG became the rock star of the legal world and gives listeners an accessible guide to these widely forgotten but momentous decisions