Womens Legal Landmarks

Author : Erika Rackley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782259791
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Legal Landmarks written by Erika Rackley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women's admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women's legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women's engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, including matrimonial property, the right to vote, prostitution, surrogacy and assisted reproduction, rape, domestic violence, FGM, equal pay, abortion, image-based sexual abuse, and the ordination of women bishops, as well as the life stories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions. Together the landmarks offer a scholarly intervention in the recovery of women's lost history and in the development of methodology of feminist legal history as well as a demonstration of women's agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice.

Author : Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509969721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years written by Rosemary Auchmuty and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939. It considers the work of feminist activists to bring about legal change which benefited - or aimed to benefit - women. Areas explored include property, inheritance, adoption, marriage, access to health care, criminal law, employment opportunities, pay, pensions and political representation. It also examines campaigns by key women's organisations, and assesses the impact of early women lawyers and politicians. While some of the landmarks effected change during this period, others provided the foundation for measures in later decades. Together the landmarks demonstrate that far from being a relatively quiet period of British feminism, the interwar period played a key role in ongoing fights for recognition, representation and justice.

Author : Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509969760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years written by Rosemary Auchmuty and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the often forgotten legal landmark' that benefited, or aimed to benefit, women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1938. The book follows campaigns by key women's organisations, including the Six-Point Group and the Married Women's Association, while assessing the impact of early women lawyers and politicians. Bringing together 30 academics and scholars, the book uncovers an era marked by feminist activists to provoke legal reforms and advances impacting every area of life - including property, family relationships, access to health care, criminal law, employment opportunities, pay, pensions and political representation"--

Author : Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781859417591
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Legal Landmarks for Women written by Rosemary Auchmuty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Legal Landmarks for Women is a thought-provoking selection of fifty legal developments over the past 200 years of significance for women in the UK. An extract from each case, statute or other source is followed by a discussion of the background and context, a legal and social analysis and a list of further reading.

Author : Elizabeth M. Schneider
Publisher : Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781599415895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Law Stories written by Elizabeth M. Schneider and published by Foundation Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429575491
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Legal History written by Russell Sandberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is actually arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialised is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that legal change on a larger scale is possible. Far from being archaic, this recasts legal history as being anarchic. Subversive Legal History is not a type of Legal History but is its defining characteristic if it is to be a central part of Law School life. It describes a legal method that should not be the preserve only of specialist legal historians but rather should be part of the toolkit of all law students, teachers and researchers. This book will be essential reading for all who work and study in Law Schools, proposing a radical new approach not only to the historical study of law but also to the content, purpose and ambition of legal education. A subversive approach can revolutionise Law Schools providing a more ambitious legal education which is grounded in the socio-legal reality, helping to ensure that today’s law students are better equipped to be the professionals and citizens of tomorrow.

Author : Ulrike Schultz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509923128
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy written by Ulrike Schultz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum remains: Does the presence of women make a difference? What has been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To remedy the oversight, an international network of scholars embarked on a comparative study, which resulted in this path-breaking book. The contributors uncover fascinating accounts of the careers of the academic pioneers as well as exploring broader theoretical issues relating to gender and culture. The provocative question as to whether the presence of women makes a difference informs each contribution.

Author : Virginia G. Drachman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674006942
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisters in Law written by Virginia G. Drachman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Susan Atkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Law written by Susan Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Wellman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092821
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Seneca Falls written by Judith Wellman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.