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Rebels at the Bar : The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers /
In this book, a legal historian recounts the life stories of a small group of nineteenth-century women who were among the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning in the late 1860s, these determined rebels pursued the radical ambition of entering the then all-male profession of law. Th...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The women's war
- White knights and legal knaves
- Myra Bradwell : the Supreme Court says no
- Lavinia Goodell : "A sweeping revolution of social order"
- Belva A. Lockwood : the first woman member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar
- Clara Foltz's story : breaking barriers in the west
- Not everyone is bold : Mary Hall and Catharine Waugh McCulloch in conversation
- Lelia Robinson and Mary Greene : two women from Boston University School of Law
- Law as a woman's enterprise
- Epilogue.