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Gender Trials - Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms (Paperback)
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Gender Trials - Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms (Paperback)
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This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's
large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women
have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers
that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal
bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and
paralegals.
Working as a paralegal, Pierce did ethnographic research in two law
offices, and her depiction of the legal world is quite unlike the
glamorized version seen on television. Pierce tellingly portrays
the dilemma that female attorneys face: a woman using tough,
aggressive tactics--the ideal combative litigator--is often
regarded as brash or even obnoxious by her male colleagues. Yet any
lack of toughness would mark her as ineffective.
Women paralegals also face a double bind in corporate law firms.
While lawyers depend on paralegals for important work, they also
expect these women--for most paralegals are women--to nurture them
and affirm their superior status in the office hierarchy.
Paralegals who mother their bosses experience increasing personal
exploitation, while those who do not face criticism and
professional sanction. Male paralegals, Pierce finds, do not
encounter the same difficulties that female paralegals do.
Pierce argues that this gendered division of labor benefits men
politically, economically, and personally. However, she finds that
women lawyers and paralegals develop creative strategies for
resisting and disrupting the male-dominated status quo. Her lively
narrative and well-argued analysis will be welcomed by anyone
interested in today's gender politics and business culture.
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