| Description |
xi, 329 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 5 Colonies of the British Empire: the first woman lawyer in New Zealand. Ethel Benjamin |
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Portraits of women lawyers -- Introduction : the first women lawyers -- Prologue : contemporary questions about women as lawyers -- Rethinking the first women lawyers : themes of gender, professionalism and women's lives -- Toward a comparative history : introducing the first women lawyers -- 1 American pioneers : the first women lawyers -- A century of struggle -- The context for the first women lawyers : new ideas about women's equality and legal professionalism -- Constitutionalising (in)equality for women lawyers -- Women's rights and professional identities -- 2 Women lawyers in Canada : becoming lawyers 'on the same terms as men' -- Women as 'fellow lawyers' -- The context for the first women lawyers in Canada : reformist ideas about professionalism and women's roles -- 'Persons,' pronouns, and policy choices : judicial reasoning in French and Langstaff -- Contested ideas : new women and legal professionalism -- 3 'Sound women' and legal work : the first women in law in Britain -- Women's access to the legal professions in Britain -- Eliza Orme : challenging 'woman's sphere' and a 'gentleman's profession' -- A woman in law in the public sphere -- Eliza Orme and the gender issue -- 4 Colonies of the British Empire : the first woman lawyer in New Zealand -- Women lawyers in the Colonies -- Ethel Benjamin -- A 'rebel [extending] the boundary of the right'? -- 5 The Empire and British India : the first Indian woman 'in law' -- A woman pleading in a British court in India : 1896 -- Becoming a woman in law in India -- Cornelia Sorabji : 'no peer among the women of India' -- 6 European connections : women in law and the role of Louis Frank -- La Femme-Avocat and European women lawyers -- Lydia Poet, Marie Popelin and Jeanne Chauvin : Louis Frank's support for women in law -- The context of L'Affaire Chauvin -- Conclusion : reflecting on the first women lawyers |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Ethel, 1875-1943.
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Women lawyers -- History.
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Lawyers -- History.
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Practice of law -- History.
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Sex discrimination in employment -- History.
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Women lawyers -- New Zealand -- Dunedin.
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| LC no. |
2006281295 |
| ISBN |
1841135909 |
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