Feminist legal history
Subtitle: essays on women and law
By: edited by Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780814787199; 9780814787205; 9780814787212
Subjects: Women; Legal status, laws; Feminist jurisprudence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : law, history, and feminism / Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau; title: Courts and temperance "ladies" / Richard H. Chused; title: Women behind the wheel : gender and transportation law, 1860-1930 / Margo Schlanger; title: Expatriation by marriage : the case of Asian American women / Leti Volpp; title: Made with men in mind : the GI bill and its reinforcement of gendered work after World War II / Melissa Murray; title: Fighting women : the military, sex, and extrajudicial constitutional change / Jill Elaine Hasday; title: Irrational women : informed consent and abortion regret / Maya Manian; title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the notion of a legal class of gender / Tracy A. Thomas; title: Them law wimmin : the Protective Agency for Women and Children and the gendered origins of legal aid / Gwen Hoerr Jordan; title: Legal aid, women lay lawyers, and the rewriting of history, 1863-1930 / Felice Batlan; title: Sisterhood of struggle : leadership and strategy in the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment / Lynda Dodd; title: Feminizing courts : lay volunteers and the integration of social work in progressive reform / Mae C. Quinn; title: Sexual harassment : law for women, by women / Carrie N. Baker; title: Ledbetter's continuum : race, gender, and pay discrimination / Eileen Boris.