Add to ORKGThere is a male standard in law, Florence Kelley proclaimed through the early 1920\u27s. Kelley, the executive secretary of the National Consumers\u27 League, believed existing legal rules and rhetoric represented only men\u27s interests. If women were subject to these male rules, she reasoned, this equal treatment would yield unequal results. Kelley wanted equality for women, but she was firmly committed to an equality based on women\u27s differences from men, rather than an equality grounded on gender neutrality. She tried to introduce to American law a female standard, one that created new legal rhetoric, concentrating on women\u27s distinct experiences. This equality-through-difference approach was summed up by the phrase industrial ...
Women were excluded from both branches of the legal profession before the Sex Discrimination (Remova...
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and acti...
The term law as used here depicts consistency in ideology, intent, presumption and the imposition ...
There is a male standard in law, Florence Kelley proclaimed through the early 1920\u27s. Kelley, t...
This dissertation studies the discourse of legal scholars and reformers, exploring the ways in which...
In Chicago in 1893, for the first time in history, women lawyers were invited to participate with ma...
Conflicts between women\u27s equality and difference arose in the 1920s over the battle between the ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement...
From the end of the Civil War until 1920, the history of the woman's rights movement is dominated by...
The usual story of the demise of laissez-faire constitutionalism in the 1930’s features heroes such ...
The modern class action, the modern feminist movement, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselve...
At its broadest, “feminist legal thought” describes the effort across generations to secure equality...
The history of the law’s treatment of working women is largely a history of the law’s treatment of w...
This thesis explores how 'womanhood' was defined by a group of sixteen women publicists in mid-ninet...
Women were excluded from both branches of the legal profession before the Sex Discrimination (Remova...
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and acti...
The term law as used here depicts consistency in ideology, intent, presumption and the imposition ...
There is a male standard in law, Florence Kelley proclaimed through the early 1920\u27s. Kelley, t...
This dissertation studies the discourse of legal scholars and reformers, exploring the ways in which...
In Chicago in 1893, for the first time in history, women lawyers were invited to participate with ma...
Conflicts between women\u27s equality and difference arose in the 1920s over the battle between the ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement...
From the end of the Civil War until 1920, the history of the woman's rights movement is dominated by...
The usual story of the demise of laissez-faire constitutionalism in the 1930’s features heroes such ...
The modern class action, the modern feminist movement, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselve...
At its broadest, “feminist legal thought” describes the effort across generations to secure equality...
The history of the law’s treatment of working women is largely a history of the law’s treatment of w...
This thesis explores how 'womanhood' was defined by a group of sixteen women publicists in mid-ninet...
Women were excluded from both branches of the legal profession before the Sex Discrimination (Remova...
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and acti...
The term law as used here depicts consistency in ideology, intent, presumption and the imposition ...