School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty Publications
Publication Date
January 2014
Abstract
This research considers how French female lawyers participated in legal reform during the period from 1900 to 1940. Frenchwomen were admitted to the legal profession in 1900 by an act of parliament and this reform brought political implications in its wake. My research on the first cadres of female lawyers illustrates that that they were unusually political active. As unequal members of the profession and unequal citizens in the society many of these new professionals engaged in a vigorous defense of equality and justice.
Source Publication
Women in Law and Lawmaking
Recommended Citation
Kimble, Sara L. “Feminist Lawyers and Political Change in Modern France, 1900-1940.” In Eva Schandevyl ed., Women in Law and Law-making in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe, chapter 2. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014: 45-73.
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