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Women and Justice for the Poor - A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (Paperback)
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Women and Justice for the Poor - A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American
legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers,
'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and
women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that
nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to
the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers,
provided such assistance. Felice Batlan illustrates that by the
early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid
societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history
of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played
no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted. In
response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal
aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal
aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of
expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the
meaning of justice for the poor.
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