The First Women Lawyers : A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Portraits of Women Lawyers -- Introduction: The First Women Lawyers -- 1. American Pioneers: The First Women Lawyers -- A CENTURY OF STRUGGLE -- THE CONTEXT FOR THE FIRST WOMEN LAWYERS: NEW IDEAS ABOUT WOMEN'S EQUALITY AND LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM -- CONSTITUTIONALISING (IN)EQUALITY FOR WOMEN LAWYERS -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES -- 2. Women Lawyers in Canada: Becoming Lawyers 'On the Same Terms as Men' -- WOMEN AS 'FELLOW LAWYERS' -- THE CONTEXT FOR THE FIRST WOMEN LAWYERS IN CANADA: REFORMIST IDEAS ABOUT PROFESSIONALISM AND WOMEN'S ROLES -- 'PERSONS,' PRONOUNS, AND POLICY CHOICES: JUDICIAL REASONING IN FRENCH AND LANGSTAFF -- CONTESTED IDEAS: NEW WOMEN AND LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM -- 3. 'Sound Women' and Legal Work: The First Women in Law in Britain -- WOMEN'S ACCESS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS IN BRITAIN -- ELIZA ORME: CHALLENGING 'WOMAN'S SPHERE' AND A 'GENTLEMAN'S PROFESSION' -- A WOMAN IN LAW IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- ELIZA ORME AND THE GENDER ISSUE -- 4. Colonies of the British Empire: The First Woman Lawyer in New Zealand -- WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE COLONIES WOMEN LAWYERS IN THE COLONIES -- ETHEL BENJAMIN ETHEL BENJAMIN -- A 'REBEL [EXTENDING] THE BOUNDARY OF THE RIGHT'? -- 5. The Empire and British India: The First Indian Woman 'In Law' -- A WOMAN PLEADING IN A BRITISH COURT IN INDIA: 1896 -- BECOMING A WOMAN IN LAW IN INDIA -- CORNELIA SORABJI: 'NO PEER AMONG THE WOMEN OF INDIA' -- 6. European Connections: Women in Law and the Role of Louis Frank -- LYDIA POËT, MARIE POPELIN AND JEANNE CHAUVIN: LOUIS FRANK'S SUPPORT FOR WOMEN IN LAW -- THE CONTEXT OF L'AFFAIRE CHAUVIN -- Conclusion: Reflecting on the First Women Lawyers -- Bibliography -- Index.

Comparative study exploring the lives of the women who challenged male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-19th and early-20 centuries.

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