Paving the way : the first American women law professors / Herma Hill Kay ; edited by Patricia A. Cain ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ; afterword by Melissa Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kay, Herma Hill, author.

Contributor:

Cain, Patricia A., editor.

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, writer of foreword.

Murray, Melissa, writer of afterword.

Series:

Law in the public square ; 1.

Law in the public square ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women law teachers--United States--Biography.

Women law teachers.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Paving the Way

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

"When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name speaks volumes for itself-but, as she clarifies in the foreword to this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Ginsburg's closest professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of these women in order to provide an essential history of their path for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about the fourteen women who preceded her, Paving the Way is filled with details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in which these women lived. Paving the Way is not just a collection of individual stories of remarkable women but also a well-crafted interweaving of law and society during a historical period when women's voices were often not heard and sometimes actively muted. The final chapter connects these first fourteen women to the "second wave" of women law professors who achieved tenure-track appointments in the 1960s and 1970s, carrying on the torch and analogous challenges. This is a decidedly feminist project, one that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and admired publicly in the years before her death"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Leading the way : Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong

Armstrong's pre-World War II contemporaries : Harriet Spiller Daggett and Margaret Harris Amsler

The czarina of legal education : Soia Mentschikoff

From the library to the faculty : five women who changed careers : Miriam Theresa Rooney, Jeanette Ozanne Smith, Janet Mary Riley, Helen Elsie Steinbinder, and Maria Minnette Massey

The mid-fifties : Ellen Ash Peters and Dorothy Wright Nelson

The end of an era : Joan Miday Krauskopf and Marygold Shire Melli

The next decades : Ruth Bader Ginsburg and women law professors from the 1960s to the 1980s

Conclusion

Appendix: a note on Clemence Myers Smith, the sixth woman law professor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Kay, Herma Hill. Paving the way

ISBN:

9780520976467

0520976460

OCLC:

1221014361