Women in law and lawmaking in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe / [edited by] Eva Schandevyl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schandevyl, Eva, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women lawyers--Europe--History.

Women lawyers.

Practice of law.

History.

Europe.

Practice of law--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

Contents:

From philanthropists to juvenile judges : women dealing with juvenile delinquency. international debates and local practices in Belgium (1890-1960) / Aurore François and Christine Machiels

Feminist lawyers and legal reform in modern France, 1900-1946 / Sara L. Kimble

Women's admission to the legal profession in Germany between 1900-1933 / Marion Röwekamp

Arbitrating Class and gender : working-class women and labour arbitration in Tourcoing, 1848-1894 / Mathieu Brûlé

Bending the code civil : married women, their capacity to engage in contracts, and the partnership between spouses (Belgium, 1804-c. 1865) / Dave de Ruysscher

Women and law in nineteenth century Greece : the impact of the modern state / Evdoxios Doxiadis

Women's rights in the late Russian Empire : the paradoxes of the legislative basis in the family sphere / Nadezda Belyakova and Taisiya Belyakova

Women lawyers and women's equality movements at the turn of the 20th century : paradoxical relationships? / Mary Jane Mossman

Legal cultures in transition : the role of Italian jurist women / Maria Rita Bartolomei.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409448730

1409448738

OCLC:

869066526