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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 17 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Women’s War
- 2. White Knights and Legal Knaves
- 3. Myra Bradwell
- 4. Lavinia Goodell
- 5. Belva A. Lockwood
- 6. Clara Foltz’s Story
- 7. Not Everyone Is Bold
- 8. Lelia Robinson and Mary Greene
- 9. Law as a Woman’s Enterprise
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author