Rebels at the bar [electronic resource] : the fascinating, forgotten stories of America's first women lawyers / Jill Norgren.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages :) illustrationsISBN:- 9780814758632
- 0814758622
- 340.092/520973 23
- KF367 .N67 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254) and index.
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.
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