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Rebels at the bar : the fascinating, forgotten stories of America's first women lawyers
Title:
Rebels at the bar : the fascinating, forgotten stories of America's first women lawyers
Author:
Norgren, Jill.
ISBN:
9780814758625
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xviii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The women's war -- White knights and legal knaves -- Myra Bradwell : the Supreme Court says no -- Lavinia Goodell : "A sweeping revolution of social order" -- Belva A. Lockwood : the first woman member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar -- Clara Foltz's story : breaking barriers in the west -- Not everyone is bold : Mary Hall and Catharine Waugh McCulloch in conversation -- Lelia Robinson and Mary Greene : two women from Boston University School of Law -- Law as a woman's enterprise -- Epilogue.