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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.
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.
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.
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.
This research monograph is an analysis of the English girls'
school-story, not mainly as an aspect of children's literature, but
as a genre which, despite the conservatism of the surface text,
deeply challenges and subverts traditional societal constructs and
provides images of liberation and self creation for girls and
women. The work examines the alternative life-views, role - models
and 'possibilities of becoming' offered by the texts. It also
explains why they have assumed such an importance (as Orwell
pointed out in regards the English boys' school literature in the
lives of boys and men) in the lives of so many adult women. Dr.
Humphrey also discusses the effect of war, shortages, sport/games,
imperial decline and evolving notions of love and passion in these
texts. This is the one of the few studies that provides a wide
ranging discussion on so many aspects of this subject and it speaks
to the power and possibility of this often dismissed, predictable
and risible literature as no other research work has done.
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