New perspectives on European women's legal history / edited by Sara L. Kimble and Marion Röwekamp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kimble, Sara L., editor.

Röwekamp, Marion, 1974- editor.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history ; 24.

Routledge research in gender and history ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe--History--20th century.

Women.

Domestic relations--Europe--History--20th century.

Domestic relations.

Women lawyers--Europe--History--20th century.

Women lawyers.

Women--Europe--Social conditions--20th century.

Sociological jurisprudence--Europe.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 452 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Pt. I. Gender and family law

Adaptation, emulation, or tradition?

Greek family law and the courts in the first decades of the modern Greek state / Evdoxios Doxiadis

Family law, legal reforms, female lawyers and feminist claims in Spain, 1868-1950 / Gloria Nielfa

Democracy at home

debating family and marriage law in the first Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1938 / Melissa Feinberg

Equality at stake

legal and national discourses on family law in Czechoslovakia

1918-1931 / Jana Osterkamp

Pt. II. Women in the legal professions

The rise of "modern Portias"

feminist legal activism in Republican France, 1890s-1940s / Sara L. Kimble

Women and the courts in twentieth-century Belgium

an historical perspective / Eva Schandevyl

The first lawyers and attorneys

the struggle for professional recognition of women's rights in Yugoslavia, 1918-1953 / Gordana Stojakovic

Bulgarian women in legal education and the legal profession during the first half of the twentieth century / Krassimira Daskalova

"The Napoleonic Civil Code is to blame for my decision to study law"

female Polish law students and lawyers in the second Polish Republic (1918-1939) / Iwona Dadej

Women, equal rights and the legal profession in Germany, 1895-1933 / Marion Röwekamp

Feminism and criminology in Britain, 1910-1950 / Anne Logan

Attempting to advocate

women entering the legal profession in Finland, 1885-1915 / Mia Korpiola

Part III. Transnational and international intersections

Tracking feminist interventions in international law issues at the league of nations

from the nationality of married women to legal equality in the family, 1919-1970 / Catherine Jacques

Who belongs?, or the question of women's citizenship in Switzerland since 1798 / Regina Wecker

Legal position of women in Portugal

the case of the Standing Committee on Legislation of the National Council of Portuguese Women (CNMP), 1914-1947 / Anne Cova

Night work for white women and bonded labour for "native" women?

contentious traditions and the globalization of gender-specific labour protection and legal equality politics, 1926 to 1939 / Susan Zimmermann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: New perspectives on European women's legal history

ISBN:

9781138805545

1138805548

OCLC:

945571336