Women in Law and Lawmaking in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe

Contents: An introduction to women in law and law making in 19th and 20th century Europe, Eva Schandevyl. Part I History of Women in the Legal Profession: 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 and 1933, Marion Röwekamp. Part II Gender Constructions and their Impact on Jurisprudence: 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 19th 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. Part III Gendered Legal Cultures in Global Perspective: 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. Index.