Fight back and win : my thirty year fight against injustice and how you can win your own battles /: my thirty year fight against injustice and how you can win your own battles. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gloria Allred with Deborah Caufield Rybak.
• Other Names: Allred, Gloria, 1941-; Rybak, Deborah Caulfield
• Contents: Foreword / Lisa Bloom -- Introduction -- 1. To conquer, you must first conquer yourself : my life lessons -- 2. Don't be victimized twice : Amber Frey's fight for justice -- 3. You can fight the power : politicians and other good ol' boys -- The Schmitz smear -- Ilene Hill and the grandstanding deputy district attorney -- How to bring down a politician gone wild (th U.S. Senate) -- It's not the office, it's the action (President Bill Clinton) -- 4. You can catch a fallen star : taking on celebrity bad boys -- Marv Albert and the blonde bombshell witness -- Tommy Lee's motley to-do -- The Pakistani cricket star (Imran Khan) plays games with paternity -- My three rounds with Mike Tyson -- Avoiding fallout from Robert Blake's media storm -- Princess Diana, the model Kelly Fisher, and the frog who wished to become Prince Charming -- 5. Fight back at work -- Debbie Thorne Volkert and the double standard -- Not part of the job description -- The man who was man-handled -- Fighting for patients who can't fight for themselves -- Fighting an old argument -- 6. You can knock down the boys' club door -- I get the last laugh at the Friars Club -- Locking horns with the Elks -- Katrina Yeaw and the boys-only Boy Scouts of America -- Even stubborn organizations can be persuaded to change -- 7. Little things start big changes -- The case of the costly shirt (Flair Cleaners' discriminatory pricing policy) -- Saks makes alterations to an unfair policy -- The clip joint -- A priceless case of menu bias (L'Orangerie's) -- Curtains for Papa Choux's policy -- A toy story -- The case of the deceptive pregnancy counseling clinic -- Paul Jasperson's courageous crusade (AIDS discrimination in West Hollywood) -- 8. You can fight high-profile killers -- (O.J. Simpson) -- 9. You can fight rapists and other sexual predators -- Lori Brown and the serial rapist -- A rapist is a rapist, regardless of the victim -- The Pillowcase Rapist and the Hollywood assault -- Desiray Bartak and the house of horror -- Rita Milla and the seven priests -- 10. Beware of bigotry -- Mel Mermelstein fights the Holocaust deniers -- "Gwen" Araujo : transgendered teen dead at seventeen -- Our fight for equality in marriage (same-gender marriage) -- 11. Motherhood is powerful -- Women in chains L.A. county sheriff's policy) -- Get creative to get child support -- Stolen eggs, a stolen son -- Sometimes moms need to move on -- The cruelest kind of custody -- (Toni Dykstra and her daughter) -- 12. Fight the boobs behind the tube -- The Scarlet "P" (Hunter Tylo and Melrose Place) -- Hooters' secret reality show -- Dude, your reality show sucks -- The interview from Hell (Thea Robinson and reality tv) -- 13. Fight for the children -- Cheerleading busted -- A different kind of child (St. James and LaDonna Davis and their chimpanzee, Moe) -- The mystery of Michael Jackson -- Conclusion : what I have learned in the past thirty years can help you.
• Publisher Details: New York : William Morrow
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 340.092; B; Biography & Autobiography -- Lawyers & Judges; Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Civil rights workers; Feminists; Women lawyers; United States; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061743573; 0061743577
• Related ISBNs: 9780060739300
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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