Women in Law

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Women In Law is an insightful and provocative study of the paradoxes women face as they live the realities beyond the new mystique of a high-powered career.
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Overview

Women In Law is an insightful and provocative study of the paradoxes women face as they live the realities beyond the new mystique of a high-powered career.
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Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews
"Fifteen years in off-and-on preparation, CUNY sociologist Epstein's exhaustive study of women lawyers fulfills its aim ... Illuminating on both the professional and personal sides of women lawyers' lives, scholarly without jargon and feminist without rhetoric, this book is likely to be the standard work on the topic for some time." (reviewing the first edition)
New York Times Book Review - New York Times
"Impressive ... a story which the legal world can read with no legal pride and which others will read with substantial interest." (reviewing the first edition)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781610270991
  • Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC
  • Publication date: 4/28/2012
  • Pages: 420
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.86 (d)

Meet the Author

CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the author of 'Access to Power: Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites'; 'The Other Half: Roads to Women’s Equality'; 'Woman’s Place: Options and Limits in Professional Careers'; and 'Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order.' Her book 'Women in Law' is considered a foundational study of the legal profession and of women's studies. Epstein recently served as President of the American Sociological Association and is currently a Trustee of the Law and Society Association.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the 1983 Edition
Preface to the 1993 Edition
Introduction: Encountering the Legal Establishment: The New Women of Law 3
1 Law: The Changing Context 13
2 Where They Came From and Why They Chose the Law 23
3 Getting into Law School 49
4 Going to Law School 60
5 Breaking In: Dark Days of Discrimination and the Beginning of a New Era 79
6 Patterns of Practice 96
7 Government Practice 112
8 Poverty Law and the Public Interest 120
9 Feminist Law Firms and Feminist Law Practice 130
10 Small Private Practices and Husband-Wife Law Partnerships 162
11 Women in the Legal Establishment: Wall Street and the Large Corporate Firms 175
12 Women Law Professors 219
13 Benchmarks: Women in the Judiciary 237
14 Professional Associations 247
15 Ambivalence and Collegiality 265
16 The Self: Confidence and Presentation 305
17 So Many Hours in the Day 315
18 Husbands, Wives, and Lovers 329
19 Children 358
Conclusion: Prognosis of Progress 380
Appendix: Methodology 387
Notes 401
Epilogue 423
Name Index 475
Subject Index 481
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