Celebrating Women in Legal History by Lorren Eldridge, Emily ... - 9781509983919

Celebrating Women in Legal HistoryMaking and Shaping a Discipline\nAuthor(s): Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland, Caroline Derry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hart Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781509983919, 978-1509983919\nSynopsis\nThis book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. \n\nIt considers women in academia, which was, in theory, open to women before they could become lawyers in most European countries. And it considers women working beyond the academy: many studied legal history in other ways; in local history societies, through archival work, and via activism.\n\nWomen legal historians have been under-recognised or forgotten altogether, even where they made substantial scholarly contributions. In focusing on the work of women in legal history, this book lays the foundations for a transformational reassessment of the discipline. It a.