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Paving the Way - The First American Women Law Professors (Hardcover)
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Paving the Way - The First American Women Law Professors (Hardcover)
Series: Law in the Public Square, 1
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The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage
they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down
barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name
speaks volumes for itself-but, as she clarifies in the foreword to
this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do
not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
and Ginsburg's closest professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way
to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at
ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who
became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of
these women in order to provide an essential history of their path
for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and
all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died
in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about
the fourteen women who preceded her, Paving the Way is filled with
details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from
their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical
context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in
which these women lived. Paving the Way is not just a collection of
individual stories of remarkable women but also a well-crafted
interweaving of law and society during a historical period when
women's voices were often not heard and sometimes actively muted.
The final chapter connects these first fourteen women to the
"second wave" of women law professors who achieved tenure-track
appointments in the 1960s and 1970s, carrying on the torch and
analogous challenges. This is a decidedly feminist project, one
that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and
admired publicly in the years before her death.
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