Format:
1 Online-Ressource (672 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781509923144
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9781509923137
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9781509946648
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9781509923113
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150992311X
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1509946640
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9781509923120
Series Statement:
Oąti International Series in Law and Society
Content:
Introduction : gender and careers in the legal academy : overview and synthesis / Ulrike Schultz -- Gender and careers in the legal academy in Germany : women's difficult path from pioneers to a (still contested) minority / Ulrike Schultz -- Gender and the Legal academy in the UK : a product of proxies and hiring and promotion practices / Liz Duff and Lisa Webley -- The feminisation of Legal Academia in Quebec : achievements and challenges / Julie Paquin -- Women, difference and identities in the Brazilian legal professoriate / Maria da Gloria Bonelli -- India's women legal academics : who they are and where you might find them / Swethaa S Ballakrishnen and Rupali Samuel -- Women in the Legal Academy at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires / Beatriz Kohen, Sonia Ariza Navarrete and Maria de los Angeles Ramallo -- Breaking the veil of masculinity? Women and the Legal Academy in Ghana / J Jarpa Dawuni -- Why not Faster? Women in the Czech and Czechoslovak Legal Academy / Jan Kober -- Gender and law teaching in Scotland / Peter Robson -- Women's entry and integration into Israel's Legal Academia : history, story, non-story and the men(tor) / Eyal Katvan and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari -- Women Legal Academics in China / Xiaonan Liu -- Women law teachers in the Philippines then, now and six decades in between : the cheerless transformation of a road less travelled to a path oft-chosen for convenience / Emily Sanchez Salcedo -- Madeleine Gevers-Dwelshauvers (1897-1994). A Grande Dame at the Université Libre de Bruxelles / Hans den Tonkelaar -- Compromise, autonomy and courage : Derkje Hazewinkel-Suringa, First Female Law Professor in the Netherlands (1889-1970) / Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen -- Inkeri Anttila, the First Woman Law Professor in Finland (1916-2013) / Harriet Silius -- Women and the Legal Academy in Estonia : in memory of Vera Poska-Grünthal, the First Woman Law Lecturer in Tartu / Merike Ristikivi -- Alice Erh-Soon Tay and the character of legal knowledge / Susan Bartie -- Oral history and Australia's First Women Law Professors / Kim Rubenstein -- The way to Barbara Armstrong, First Tenure-Track Law Professor in an Accredited US Law School / Susan D Carle -- Why Aisha Rateb could not become Egypt-s First Female Judge, and became Egypt's First Female Law Professor instead / Omnia Mehanna and Nadia Sonneveld -- First Female Law Student and Law Professor in Kuwait : Badria Al-Awadhi Opens Doors for Women in Law 1967-2020 / Rania Maktabi -- Memories : becoming a law professor / Celia Wells -- 'Herculean obstacles and intrepid complainants' : the sex discrimination complaint at Osgoode Hall Law School, 1987-1994 / Mary Jane Mossman -- The road to olive stone / Rosemary Auchmuty and Jennifer Temkin -- The First and Last(?) Feminist Law Professors in Australia / Margaret Thornton -- Feminist legal academics : changing the epistemology of American law through conflicts, controversies and comparisons / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Rethinking masculinities in the legal academy : men, gender and legal careers (or, whatever happened to the 'nutty professor'?) / Richard Collier -- Patriarchal discourses in the UK Legal Academy : the case of the reasonable man / Hilary Sommerlad.
Content:
"In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum remains: Does the presence of women make a difference? What has been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To remedy the oversight, an international network of scholars embarked on a comparative study, which resulted in this path-breaking book. The contributors uncover fascinating accounts of the careers of the academic pioneers as well as exploring broader theoretical issues relating to gender and culture. The provocative question as to whether the presence of women makes a difference informs each contribution"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509946648
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender and careers in the legal academy Oxford : Hart, 2021 ISBN 9781509923113
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509946648
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781509923144
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