A Woman in Law : Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics.

Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- About the author -- The author of the Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- My father and mother, Ted and Muriel Faulkner early-1940s. -- My sister Barbara, me, my father and my brother Brian in Eype, Dorset, circa 1957. -- The first Shop Stewards' Committee at Radiators (a section of Morris Motors), c.1942. -- With my sister at Eype's Mouth, Dorset, circa 1959. -- Henry Savery's tombstone on the Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur. -- My family tree. -- Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. -- Progeny of William Strode, 1562-1637, my great grandfather times ten, St Marys Church, Plympton. His fifth daughter Juliana 1593-1627 was my great grandmother times nine. -- Portrait believed to be of Elizabeth Seymour (my great grandmother times 12), attributed to Holbein. -- My brother Brian, c. 1958. -- The Carritts' wooden chalet at Eype's Mouth. -- Me with my father, mother, brother and sister, published in the Oxford Mail 1958 reporting Ted's state scholarship to study at UCNS. -- The Wantage great aunts - Mary, Bridget (Bill) and Sybil Kent. -- Cutteslowe Wall. -- Blue plaque commemorating the wall. -- Ted at his graduation in 1961. Middle row, far left. -- Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. -- Sugar Loaf Mountain (Mynydd Pen-y-fâl) from Skirrid (Ysgyryd Fawr). -- Women Presidents of the Society of Legal Scholars 1997-2008: Margot Brazier (1997-8), Fiona Cownie (2008-9), Celia Wells (2006-7) and Sarah Worthington (2007-8). -- At the Buckingham Palace Investiture, with Alice and Lydia, December 2006. -- Dedication -- Introduction -- The Accidental Communists -- Getting Started -- Class, Gender and Politics -- Families - My Bigamous Grandmother -- Savery v King -- Social and Economic Transitions -- Communism and the Carritt Connection.

'The Party the Party' -- After the War -- The Not So Secret Life of a Seven-year-old -- Town and Gown -- Life, Law and Feminism -- Becoming a Woman -- Becoming a Law Professor -- Law and Life -- A Woman Law Professor -- Collisions - Expectations, Enabling and Endings -- Destructive and disordered behaviours -- My eulogy at Derek's funeral -- Where Did I Come From? To Oxford via Wolf Hall, St Pancras and Essex -- References and bibliography -- Appendix I: Women Law Professors - Negotiating and Transcending Gender Identities at Work -- Appendix II: The Decline and Rise of English Murder: Corporate Crime and Individual Responsibility -- Index -- Back cover.

A frank and revealing account which distils the essence of women's career challenges and highlights the issues women continue to face.

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