Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface 1
4. Prologue Telling the Stories of Women Becoming Lawyers in Ontario 5
5. Part One The First Women Lawyers: Making History
6. Women in Law: An International Movement 29
7. Chapter One Challenging Male Exclusivity in the Canadian Legal Professions, 1897–1918 37
8. Chapter Two After Clara Brett Martin: Ontario’s Early Women Lawyers 74
9. Part Two Opportunities and Barriers: The Interwar Years, 1919–39
10. After the First World War: A “Turning Point” for Women? 121
11. Chapter Three Pioneers and Prejudice: After the War, 1919–29 136
12. Chapter Four “Unlimited Possibilities”? The Depression Years, 1930–39 192
13. One Hundred Women Lawyers: “A Meagre, If Resourceful, Handful” 234
14. Part Three Gendered Legal Contexts: War and Post-War Reforms, 1940–57
15. Women Lawyers in War and Peace: Progress and Stasis 249
16. Chapter Five “Gendered Hierarchies and Relations of Power”, 1940–49 264
17. Chapter Six Transitions in Law and Legal Education, 1950–57 332
18. Achievements on the Margins of the Legal Profession 379
19. Part Four After 1957: Changing Gender Patterns
20. Continuity or Transformation? 391
21. Epilogue A Legacy of Gendered Patterns 443
22. Appendix: Statutes in Canada re the Admission of Women as Lawyers 459
23. Selected Bibliography 461
24. Index of Names of Women Lawyers 495
25. Index of Subjects 509