Feminist legal history : essays on women and law /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8373591 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Law, History, and Feminism
- Part I. Contradictions in Legalizing Gender
- 1. Courts and Temperance "Ladies"
- 2. Women behind the Wheel Gender and Transportation Law, 1860-1930
- 3. Expatriation by Marriage The Case of Asian American Women
- 4. Made with Men in Mind The GI Bill and Its Reinforcement of Gendered Work after World War II
- 5. Fighting Women The Military Sexy and Extrajudicial Constitutional Change
- 6. Irrational Women Informed Consent and Abortion Regret
- Part II. Women's Transformation of the Law
- 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender
- 8. "Them Law Wimmin" The Protective Agency for Women and Children and the Gendered Origins of Legal Aid
- 9. Legal Aid, Women Lay Lawyers, and the Rewriting of History 1863-1930
- 10. Sisterhood of Struggle Leadership and Strategy in the Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
- 11. "Feminizing" Courts Lay Volunteers and the Integration of Social Work in Progressive Reform
- 12. Sexual Harassment Law for Women, by Women
- 13. Ledbetter's Continuum Race, Gender, and Pay Discrimination
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
