Rebels at the Bar : : The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers / / Jill Norgren.
An engaging history of women's rights and the legal profession in the nineteenth centuryLong before Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg earned their positions on the Supreme Court, they were preceded in their goal of legal excellence by several intrepid trailblazers. In Rebels at t...
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