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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, And The Legal Profession, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Elizabeth M. Schneider
Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, And The Legal Profession, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Elizabeth M. Schneider
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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The Founding Of The Washington College Of Law: The First Law School Established By Women For Women, Mary Clark
The Founding Of The Washington College Of Law: The First Law School Established By Women For Women, Mary Clark
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Sex And The Social Order: The Selective Enforcement Of Colonial American Adultery Laws In The English Context, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Sex And The Social Order: The Selective Enforcement Of Colonial American Adultery Laws In The English Context, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Publications
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Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930, Margo Schlanger
Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930, Margo Schlanger
Articles
How did early American tort law treat women? How were they expected to behave, and how were others expected to behave towards them? What gender differences mattered, and how did courts deal with those differences? These are the issues this Article explores. My aim is to illuminate the common law of torts and its relation to and with ideas about gender difference, by focusing on three sets of cases involving injured women, spanning the time between approximately 1860 and 1930. My conclusions run counter to two approaches scholars have frequently taken in analyzing gender and the common law of torts. …