Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewMore than any other profession women entered in the nineteenth century, law was the most rigidly engendered. Access to courts, bar associations, and law schools was controlled by men, while the very act of gaining admission to practice law demanded that women reinterpret the male-constructed jurisprudence that excluded them. This history of women lawyers--from the 1860s to the 1930s--defines the contours of women's integration into the modern legal profession. Nineteenth-century women built a women lawyers' movement through which they fought to gain entrance to law schools and bar associations, joined the campaign for women suffrage, and sought to balance marriage and career. By the twentieth century, most institutional barriers crumbled and younger women entered the law confident that equal opportunity had replaced sexual discrimination. Their optimism was misplaced as many women lawyers continued to encounter discrimination, faced limited opportunities for professional advancement, and struggled to balance gender and professional identity. Based on rich and diverse archival sources, this book is the landmark study of the history of women lawyers in America. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Virginia G. DrachmanPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780674006942ISBN 10: 0674006941 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 30 October 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction A Sphere with an Infinite and Indeterminable Radius I Was. the Only Woman in a Large School of Men Sweeter Manners, Purer Laws I Think I Haven't Neglected My Husband Some of Our Best Students Have Been Women Primarily for Women Woman's Position in the Profession 'The Golden Age of Opportunity for Women Girl Lawyer Has Small Chance for Success Appendix 1: Tables Appendix 2: Sources and Methods Abbreviations Notes IndexReviewsDrachman brings a new and illuminating context to... early cases where the courts resisted women's claims to practice law... Revealing the lives of the women who brought the cases... [she] places the cases in the context of women's demands for equality in all aspects of public life, particularly the suffrage campaigns. - Clare McGlynn, Legal History This is a lively book, rooted in wonderful individual cases, and worth your reading time. - Law and Politics Book Review Author InformationVirginia G. Drachman is Professor of History at Tufts University. She is the author of Women Lawyers and the Origins of Professional Identity in America and Hospital with a Heart. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
