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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kimble, Sara L.

Röwekamp, Marion, 1974-

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.

Social conditions.

History.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

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.

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

ISBN:

9781315739564 ()

1315739569 ()

9781317577164

1317577167

OCLC:

945586099

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