The graphic book illustrates the course of Ginsburg’s professional and personal life.
The book explores the hardship Ginsburg faced in her early life. Despite being born to an affluent family in New York’s Upper East Side, Ginsburg was met with discrimination and stigma due to her Jewish background. This was a key obstacle in trying to get ahead with her education at prestigious universities such as Cornell, Harvard and Columbia. Indeed, Ginsburg herself was one of only nine women admitted to Harvard law school, and was once asked by her professor why she wanted to come to Harvard and take the place of a man.
Being both Jewish and a woman meant Ginsburg had to take a powerful stance against gender and racial discrimination from an early age. As she became involved with the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), this opened her eyes to a whole world of gender based discrimination, which she knew she had to fight against.
The book touches on some of Ginsburg’s more prominent cases that followed, such as, Moritz v. Commissioner (1972) , and United States v. Virginia (1996).
There is also a focus on Ginsburg’s unconventional relationship with her feminist husband, Martin, and their mutual ambition to see her success in the court room against gender biased laws.
