Law, Women's Rights, and the Organization of the Legal Profession in the Gilded Age
Author | : Caroline K. Goddard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Chicago legal news |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Caroline K. Goddard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Chicago legal news |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Women lawyers |
ISBN | : 9780252062056 |
Author | : Virginia G. Drachman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674006942 |
Ranging from the 1860s when women first sought entrance into law to the 1930s when most institutional barriers had crumbled, this book defines the contours of women's integration into the most rigidly gendered profession.
Author | : Sara L. Kimble |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317577167 |
This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze questions of family law and international law and highlight the politics of gender in the legal professions in a variety of historical, social and national settings, including Eastern, Southern, Western, Northern and Central Europe. Focusing on different legal cultures, they show us the similarities and differences in the ways the law has shaped the contours of women and men’s lives in powerful ways. They also show how women have used legal knowledge to struggle for their equal rights on the national and transnational level. The chapters address the interconnectedness of the history of feminism, legislative reforms, and women’s citizenship, and build a foundation for a comparative vision of women’s legal history in modern Europe.
Author | : Joan Hoff |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0814735096 |
The legal status of women has changed more rapidly in the last 20 years than in the previous 200, Hoff argues, but these changes have become less important over time. The American power structure has relinquished rights to women and minorities only after these rights have been diminished by a white-male-dominated legal system. She calls for a reinterpretation of legal texts to create a feminist jurisprudence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Eva Schandevyl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113477513X |
Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of women in the judicial world and what gender factors determine the position of women at the various levels of the legal system. Every chapter in this book addresses these issues either from the point of view of women's legal history, or from that of gendered legal cultures. With contributions from scholars with expertise in the major regions of Europe, this book demonstrates a commitment to a methodological framework that is sensitive to the intersection of gender theory, legal studies and public policy, and that is based on historical methodologies. As such the collection offers a valuable contribution both to women's history research, and the wider development of European legal history.
Author | : Barbara A. Curran |
Publisher | : Commission |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination against women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jill Norgren |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1479835358 |
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Author | : Mary Jane Mossman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2006-05-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1847310958 |
This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive societal change, including new and expanding opportunities for women, as well as a variety of proposals for reforming law, legal education, and standards of legal professionalism. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this reformist context in different jurisdictions, the study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In exploring these systemic issues, the study also provides detailed examinations of the lives of some of the first women lawyers in six jurisdictions: the United States, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia, India, and western Europe. In exploring how individual women adopted different legal arguments in litigated cases, or devised particular strategies to overcome barriers to professional work, the study assesses how shifting and contested ideas about gender and about legal professionalism shaped women's opportunities and choices, as well as both support for and opposition to their claims. As a comparative study of the first women lawyers in several different jurisdictions, the book reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author | : Patricia E. Salkin |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781590319840 |
Albany Law School has hosted an annual Kate Stoneman Day since 1994 to celebrate the first woman admitted to the Bar in New York, who was also the first woman to attend Albany Law School. This important book shares the inspiration, advice and experiences of pioneering women in the legal profession who continue to pave the way for others. Their speeches, delivered at Kate Stoneman Day and published here, are from our leading women lawyers-many of them active members of the American Bar Association as well as judges, professors and partners in major law firms. Book jacket.