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Feminist legal history : essays on women and law /

Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thomas, Tracy A., Boisseau, Tracey Jean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : law, history, and feminism / Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau
  • Courts and temperance "ladies" / Richard H. Chused
  • Women behind the wheel : gender and transportation law, 1860-1930 / Margo Schlanger
  • Expatriation by marriage : the case of Asian American women / Leti Volpp
  • Made with men in mind : the GI bill and its reinforcement of gendered work after World War II / Melissa Murray
  • Fighting women : the military, sex, and extrajudicial constitutional change / Jill Elaine Hasday
  • Irrational women : informed consent and abortion regret / Maya Manian
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the notion of a legal class of gender / Tracy A. Thomas
  • Them law wimmin : the Protective Agency for Women and Children and the gendered origins of legal aid / Gwen Hoerr Jordan
  • Legal aid, women lay lawyers, and the rewriting of history, 1863-1930 / Felice Batlan
  • Sisterhood of struggle : leadership and strategy in the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment / Lynda Dodd
  • Feminizing courts : lay volunteers and the integration of social work in progressive reform / Mae C. Quinn
  • Sexual harassment : law for women, by women / Carrie N. Baker
  • Ledbetter's continuum : race, gender, and pay discrimination / Eileen Boris.