Manning the Law: Why the Legal Person Remains a Man

This is a study of elite English men of English law and the methods they used to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person.

It looks at how these men of legal authority thought of themselves and their institution; how they studied and explained law; and how they put themselves in the middle of it, as the standard human in need of legal regulation and protection and in charge of that regulation and protection, and assigned to women an infe...