Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Name: Women, Their Lives, and the Law
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Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

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Women, Their Lives, and the Law is a collection of essays honouring Professor Rosemary Auchmuty of the University of Reading, UK. The volume champions feminist legal history to highlight women's roles and challenge traditional narratives that marginalise them. It opens with a discussion of Miss Bebb, whose biography helped integrate feminist perspectives into legal history, then explores women's struggles in the legal profession through history and biography. Subsequent chapters offer feminist critiques of private law and examine legal education, focusing on law's deep significance for women’s lives.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in feminist legal studies, gender equality, legal history, and women's contributions to law. It suits academics, students, and practitioners engaged with social justice and the reform of legal structures affecting women.

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This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women’s academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside.

Just as Rosemary’s work does, Women, Their Lives, and the Law seeks to end the marginalisation and exclusion of women in the legal world by including them. The book begins fittingly with a discussion of Miss Bebb, the woman whose biography Auchmuty deployed to push feminist legal history into the mainstream. It turns then to a discussion of women known and unknown and their struggles within the legal profession, offering within those chapters a critical appraisal of the role of history and biography as a methodology.

From there it moves to consider feminist perspectives and critiques of the dominant structures of private law. This is followed by chapters that explore those who educate the legal profession within the academy. The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women’s lives.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509962082

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 December 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hart Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Sally Wheeler
Edited by Dr Victoria Barnes
Edited by Dr Nora Honkala
Edited by Professor Sally Wheeler
Edited by Victoria Barnes
Edited by Nora Honkala

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Victoria Barnes is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany.
Nora Honkala is Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, UK.
Sally Wheeler is Professor of Law and VC Designate at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.