Subjects: “…African American women lawyers -- History.…”

Subjects:

Table of Contents: “…Violence (1990-2000) -- A challenge for a young lawyer -- Using civil rights to combat violence -- Judges strike back -- Seeking equal judicial firepower -- Women judges to the rescue -- Reckoning at the Supreme Court -- Postscript: Toward equality (twenty-first century).…”

Table of Contents: “…Loose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture /…”

Table of Contents: “…Challenging "hidden" assumptions : (women) lawyers and family life /…”

Table of Contents: “…Liberalization's limits from Griswold to Roe -- Consistent conservatism in Boutilier -- Liberalization's lawyers -- Boutilier's defenders -- Boutilier's defense -- Remembering Griswold to Roe -- Forgetting Boutilier.…”

Table of Contents: “…I was a teenager on death row chapter -- The fourteen-year-old adult -- Look at me -- Hate is a killer, dialogue I -- Private with our grief, dialogue II -- Dying for legal assistance : Roy's and Mark's lawyer.…”

Table of Contents: “…From godly rules to lawyerly habits: scenes from the New Haven courtroom -- Toward marginality: women and the litigated economy -- Divorce: the limits of a puritan remedy -- Consensual sex: the Eighteenth-Century double standard -- Rape: the problematics of woman's word -- Slanderous speech: gender and the fall from social grace -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut and New Haven colonies, 1639-1710 -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789.…”

Table of Contents: “…Yellow Bird's Song: The Dilemma of an Indian Lawyer and Poet -- 2. Tonto's Revenge, or, Who Is That Seminole in the Sioux Warbonnet? …”

Table of Contents: “…Women and the cast of legal persons / Ngaire Naffine -- De-sexing the woman lawyer / Rosemary Hunter -- "Sexing the matrix" : embodiment, disembodiment and the law : towards the re-gendering of legal personality? …”
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