Feminist legal history essays on women and law / edited by Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau.

Other author Thomas, Tracy A.
Other author Boisseau, Tracey Jean.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionxi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from UPCC Books Political Science and Policy Studies 2011 Subject Collection
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Contents Introduction : law, history, and feminism / Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau -- Courts and temperance "ladies" / Richard H. Chused -- Women behind the wheel : gender and transportation law, 1860-1930 / Margo Schlanger -- Expatriation by marriage : the case of Asian American women / Leti Volpp -- Made with men in mind : the GI bill and its reinforcement of gendered work after World War II / Melissa Murray -- Fighting women : the military, sex, and extrajudicial constitutional change / Jill Elaine Hasday -- Irrational women : informed consent and abortion regret / Maya Manian -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the notion of a legal class of gender / Tracy A. Thomas -- Them law wimmin : the Protective Agency for Women and Children and the gendered origins of legal aid / Gwen Hoerr Jordan -- Legal aid, women lay lawyers, and the rewriting of history, 1863-1930 / Felice Batlan -- Sisterhood of struggle : leadership and strategy in the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment / Lynda Dodd -- Feminizing courts : lay volunteers and the integration of social work in progressive reform / Mae C. Quinn -- Sexual harassment : law for women, by women / Carrie N. Baker -- Ledbetter's continuum : race, gender, and pay discrimination / Eileen Boris.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-260) and index.
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