Paving the way : the first American women law professors /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kay, Herma Hill (Author)
Other Authors: Cain, Patricia A. (Editor), Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020 (writer of foreword.), Murray, Melissa (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:Law in the public square ; 1.
Subjects:
Women law teachers > United States > Biography.
Professeures de droit > États-Unis > Biographies.
HISTORY / Women
Women law teachers
United States
academia.
exclusion.
feminist.
gender.
insider.
ivory tower.
law and society.
law school.
leaders.
legal academy.
life.
professor.
race.
retrieved history.
ruth bader ginsburg.
sexual discrimination.
social change.
stories.
trailblazing.
untold.
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Leading the way : Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong
  • Armstrong's pre-World War II contemporaries : Harriet Spiller Daggett and Margaret Harris Amsler
  • The czarina of legal education : Soia Mentschikoff
  • From the library to the faculty : five women who changed careers : Miriam Theresa Rooney, Jeanette Ozanne Smith, Janet Mary Riley, Helen Elsie Steinbinder, and Maria Minnette Massey
  • The mid-fifties : Ellen Ash Peters and Dorothy Wright Nelson
  • The end of an era : Joan Miday Krauskopf and Marygold Shire Melli
  • The next decades : Ruth Bader Ginsburg and women law professors from the 1960s to the 1980s
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: a note on Clemence Myers Smith, the sixth woman law professor.

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