Dissonance and distrust : women in the legal profession / Margaret Thornton
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- Author:
- Thornton, Margaret (Margaret Rose), 1940-
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- Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996
- xii, 323 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195536614
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- Machine derived contents note: Foreword - Professor Mary Jane Mossman
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. The Fictive Feminine
- Virtuous Woman
- Disorderly Woman
- Positioning the Picket Fence
- Legal Narratives
- The Triumph of Ideology
- A Postmodern Paradox
- 2. The Maiden Bachelor of Law
- 'Sweet Girl Graduates with their Golden Hair'
- Women of 'Electric Perceptive Intuition'
- Women as Non-Persons
- After the First Wave
- 3. Education for Corporatisation
- The Constitution of Legal Knowledge
- The Docile Law Student
- Beyond the Tipping
- 4. Academic Affairs
- Bureaucratised Authority
- The Gendered Academy
- The Revolving Door
- 5. The Neutral Woman of Law
- The Sexual Regime
- Sentinels at the Portals
- Solicitors: Corporatised and Commodified
- Psychic Income in Lieu
- In the Shadow of Benchmark Man
- 6. Contingent Authority
- Camaraderie and Clubs
- Quasi-Partners
- Auxiliaries of the Bar
- Women on the Woolsack
- Professional Politics
- (i) Law Societies
- (ii) Women Lawyers
- (iii) Feminist Activism
- 7. Body Politics
- The Discourse of Femininity
- Dresscodes The Mother as Other
- The Mother as Other
- The Pervasiveness of Discrimination
- Ineffability of Sexual Harassment
- Manned or Damned
- 8. Conclusion: Fragile Frontiers
- From Feminity to 'Feminisation'
- Affective Practice
- Rewriting the Social Script
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 298-313.
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