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Framing Female Lawyers

Author : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292797036
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Framing Female Lawyers written by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.

You Don't Look Like a Lawyer

Author : Tsedale M. Melaku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538107937
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book You Don't Look Like a Lawyer written by Tsedale M. Melaku and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism highlights how race and gender create barriers to recruitment, professional development, and advancement to partnership for black women in elite corporate law firms.

Women Lawyers

Author : Mona Harrington
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831566
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Women Lawyers written by Mona Harrington and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact of new perspectives and issues that women bring with them into the profession. On the basis of more than one hundred interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, and through the stories of their daily experiences, Harrington pinpoints and analyzes the key factors holding women back in a profession still dominated by males—among them the “men’s club” ambience, the focus on billable hours, sexual harassment and the inequality it perpetuates, lingering unequal division of labor at home, and hostile media images of women in positions of power. She shows us what life is like for women lawyers in practice today and how their dilemmas reflect the social issues of our time. She gives us the voices of women who have adapted to the cultural codes of corporate law and women who have broken them; women who have successfully balanced their professional and private lives and women who feel trapped by the combination of long hours at the office and full responsibility at home. She introduces us to women in new and alternative firms, on the faculties of small public law schools, in in-house legal departments, in prosecutors’ offices and courtrooms—women who are devising new rules and legal theories to bring about change. Women Lawyers is must reading for every woman in the midst of—or contemplating—a career in the law, and for the men who work with them.

Framed

Author : Orit Kamir
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822336242
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Framed written by Orit Kamir and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTheorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world./div

Women Lawyers' Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Lawyers' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes lists of members of the association.

The Woman Advocate

Author : Abbe F. Fletman
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781604427233
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Advocate written by Abbe F. Fletman and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman Advocate is by women advocates for woman advocates. It contains first-hand accounts by successful women lawyers of their experiences at all stages of career development. In the four parts of the book- Where We Are; How We Got There; What Our Environment Is Like; and Where We're Going-the contributors provide reflections, advice, guidance, and, of course, war stories in lively, entertaining and insightful prose.

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Author : Jill Norgren
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479805998
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers written by Jill Norgren and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

Justice Is a Lady Lawyer

Author : Erin Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946203373
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Justice Is a Lady Lawyer written by Erin Field and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a lady lawyer is not always easy. Erin has weathered the storms and has earned the respect of fellow attorneys and judges that cause others to marvel. There are things you learn in law school, then there are the things you learn while practicing the law. Once you have the first behind you, Erin can teach you the rest. Erin's desire is to help fellow female lawyers get better at their craft. She has been called, "the Guru to the gals." So if you're a female lawyer and want to get better, you'll learn a lot by reading what Erin has to say in this book.

Pioneering Women Lawyers

Author : Patricia E. Salkin
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590319840
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Pioneering Women Lawyers written by Patricia E. Salkin and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albany Law School has hosted an annual Kate Stoneman Day since 1994 to celebrate the first woman admitted to the Bar in New York, who was also the first woman to attend Albany Law School. This important book shares the inspiration, advice and experiences of pioneering women in the legal profession who continue to pave the way for others. Their speeches, delivered at Kate Stoneman Day and published here, are from our leading women lawyers-many of them active members of the American Bar Association as well as judges, professors and partners in major law firms. Book jacket.

Women Lawyers at Work

Author : Elinor Porter Swiger
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Lawyers at Work written by Elinor Porter Swiger and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the private and public aspects of the lives of twelve prominent women lawyers.

Sisters in Law

Author : Virginia G. Drachman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sisters in Law written by Virginia G. Drachman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other profession women entered in the nineteenth century, law was the most rigidly engendered. Access to courts, bar associations, and law schools was controlled by men, while the very act of gaining admission to practice law demanded that women reinterpret the male-constructed jurisprudence that excluded them. This history of women lawyers--from the 1860s to the 1930s--defines the contours of women's integration into the modern legal profession. Nineteenth-century women built a women lawyers' movement through which they fought to gain entrance to law schools and bar associations, joined the campaign for women suffrage, and sought to balance marriage and career. By the twentieth century, most institutional barriers crumbled and younger women entered the law confident that equal opportunity had replaced sexual discrimination. Their optimism was misplaced as many women lawyers continued to encounter discrimination, faced limited opportunities for professional advancement, and struggled to balance gender and professional identity. Based on rich and diverse archival sources, this book is the landmark study of the history of women lawyers in America.

The Invisible Bar

Author : Karen Berger Morello
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Bar written by Karen Berger Morello and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of women lawyers in America, a New York attorney traces the 350-year-old struggle that, to a certain degree, is still being waged in some form today. As late as 1950, for example, women who had crashed the barriers of Harvard Law Schoolwere subjected to a ``Ladies Day'' ritual in which they recited for the amusement of all-male classes. As Morello tells the stories of the women who helped promote justice, beginning with Margaret Brent, the first woman lawyer in America, who arrived in the colonies in 1638, and ending with the first female Supreme Court Justice, she shows their commonalityan unwillingness to be cowed professionally because of their gender. Rich in entertaining anecdotes and finely researched, the survey makes heady reading. Illustrations not seen by PW. (October 30 Copyright 1986 Cahners Business Information.

Nobody's Girl Friday

Author : J. E. Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190840846
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Girl Friday written by J. E. Smyth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist. Based on a decade of archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism. Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told-until now.

Women in Law

Author : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women in Law written by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women In Law is an insightful and provocative study of the paradoxes women face as they live the realities beyond the new mystique of a high-powered career.

Beautiful TV

Author : Greg M. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292716435
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful TV written by Greg M. Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a different approach to analyzing television series. Starting from the premise that much of television is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, this work analyzes "Ally McBeal" in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction.

What If I Had Been the Hero?

Author : Sue Thornham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839021160
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book What If I Had Been the Hero? written by Sue Thornham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.

Eve was Framed

Author : Helena Kennedy
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Eve was Framed written by Helena Kennedy and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly personal criticism of the British legal system, its courts, its judges and its procedures. It takes women as the key example, showing how they have been adversely affected by images of women held by both lawyers and jurors, and discussing recent debates and cases such as the Sara Thornton case and the Kennedy rape trial, as well as the lesser-known daily business of the courts.