Women and justice for the poor: a history of legal aid, 1863-1945
"This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women&...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Summary: | "This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such assistance. Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted. In response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the meaning of justice for the poor"... |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xv, 232 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107084537 9781107446410 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
INTRODUCTION; PART I. A FEMALE DOMINION OF LEGAL AID, 1863-1910: 1. THE
ORIGINS OF LEGAL AID; 2. THE CHICAGO EXPERIENCE: THE MATURATION OF
WOMEN S LEGAL AID; PART II. THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF LEGAL AID,
1890-1921: 3. OF IMMIGRANTS, SAILORS, AND SERVANTS: THE LEGAL AID
SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; 4. REINVENTING LEGAL AID; PART III. DIALOGUES:
LAWYERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS, 1921-45: 5. CONSTELLATIONS OF JUSTICE; 6.
COMPROMISES; CONCLUSION
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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