This website began in order to serve as a repository of full endnotes for Equal: Women Reshape American Law--more notes than will appear in the printed book. The concept for these full and searchable endnotes arose after the book was basically complete, when editors at Norton realized that it might extend past 600 printed pages and suggested that we try to shorten the book. Rather than shave words from each chapter, we decided to reduce the volume of endnotes in the printed book but to put all endnotes online--a savings of paper and also, I think, a fine resource for the few readers who truly wish to spend time in the endnotes. Because the notes are keyed to pages and phrases in the book, searching can be more efficient than using the book's index.
When you click here or on the link above, you will then have a chance to read, or save to your computer, a 2.5 MB Adobe PDF file, 116 pages in length and fully searchable, titled "EqualEndnotesStrebeighDecember2008." (If I ever update the endnotes, for any reason, I will update the title.) (These endnotes seem no longer to be available as of October 2009, at W. W. Norton.)
-- Fred Strebeigh