Claiming the law
Subtitle: essays by New Zealand women in celebration of the 1993 Suffrage Centennial
By: edited by Elisabeth McDonald and Graeme Austin
Series: VUWLR -- v. 23, pt. 2; Victoria University of Wellington law review -- v. 23, no. 2
Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington Law Review in conjunction with Victoria University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Women lawyers; Women judges; Women; Social conditions; Law
Other titles: 1993 Suffrage Centennial
Notes: Special issue of Victoria University of Wellington law review, volume 23, number 2 (May 1993).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Essays by women lawyers...who have been connected with the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington; title: Foreword. Also issued in Victoria University of Wellington Law Review v 23 no 2 (May 1993) ; Contents: My life in the law by Shirley Smith ; Issues for women in claims for medical misadventure by Margaret A McGregor Vennell ; Legislative changes in the criminal justice system : womens issues and victim legislation since 1975 by Hon Judge C Henwood ; Balancing or juggling our private and public lives? by Joanne Morris ; Engendering poverty : rolling back the state on New Zealand women by Jane Kelsey ; Notes from a woman lawyer in government by Joy Liddicoat ; Womans place is ... on the bench by Janet November ; Reasonable person : a gendered concept by Wendy Parker : Law of contract and the taking of risks : feminist legal theory and the way it is by Elisabeth McDonald ; One womans experience of commercial practice by Teresa Shreves ; Refining the regulation of sexual harassment by Virginia Grainer ; Discrimination in New Zealand : a personal journey by Mai Chen ; Law in the slow lane by Anne Holden ; Lessons from feminist epistemology : toward an environmental jurisprudence by Sally Bullen ; How legal education will assault you as a woman by Carmel Rogers.