- Bib ID:
- 1617531
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Drachman, Virginia G., 1948-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
- xiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0674809912 (alkaline paper)
- 0674006941 (paperback)
- Summary:
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More than any other profession women entered in the nineteenth century, law was the most rigidly engendered. Access to courts, bar associations, and law schools was controlled by men, while the very act of gaining admission to practice law demanded that women reinterpret the male-constructed jurisprudence that excluded them. This history of women lawyersfrom the 1860s to the 1930s - defines the contours of women's integration into the modern legal profession. Based on rich and diverse archival sources, this book is the landmark study of the history of women lawyers in America.
- Full contents:
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- 1. A Sphere with an Infinite and Indeterminable Radius
- 2. I Was the Only Woman in a Large School of Men
- 3. Sweeter Manners, Purer Laws
- 4. I Think I Haven't Neglected My Husband
- 5. Some of Our Best Students Have Been Women
- 6. Primarily for Women
- 7. Woman's Position in the Profession
- 8. The Golden Age of Opportunity for Women
- 9. Girl Lawyer Has Small Chance for Success.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-328) and index.
- Subject:
- Women lawyers -- United States -- History
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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