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12. Sexual Harassment

Law for Women, by Women
  • Carrie N. Baker
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Feminist Legal History
This chapter is in the book Feminist Legal History
© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction. Law, History, and Feminism 1
  6. Part I. Contradictions in Legalizing Gender
  7. 1. Courts and Temperance “Ladies” 33
  8. 2. Women behind the Wheel 52
  9. 3. Expatriation by Marriage 68
  10. 4. Made with Men in Mind 84
  11. 5. Fighting Women 100
  12. 6. Irrational Women 118
  13. Part II. Women’s Transformation of the Law
  14. 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender 139
  15. 8. “Them Law Wimmin” 156
  16. 9. Legal Aid, Women Lay Lawyers, and the Rewriting of History, 1863-1930 173
  17. 10. Sisterhood of Struggle 189
  18. 11. “Feminizing” Courts 206
  19. 12. Sexual Harassment 223
  20. 13. Ledbetter’s Continuum 240
  21. Selected Bibliography 257
  22. Contributors 261
  23. Index 265
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784266.003.0017

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction. Law, History, and Feminism 1
  6. Part I. Contradictions in Legalizing Gender
  7. 1. Courts and Temperance “Ladies” 33
  8. 2. Women behind the Wheel 52
  9. 3. Expatriation by Marriage 68
  10. 4. Made with Men in Mind 84
  11. 5. Fighting Women 100
  12. 6. Irrational Women 118
  13. Part II. Women’s Transformation of the Law
  14. 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender 139
  15. 8. “Them Law Wimmin” 156
  16. 9. Legal Aid, Women Lay Lawyers, and the Rewriting of History, 1863-1930 173
  17. 10. Sisterhood of Struggle 189
  18. 11. “Feminizing” Courts 206
  19. 12. Sexual Harassment 223
  20. 13. Ledbetter’s Continuum 240
  21. Selected Bibliography 257
  22. Contributors 261
  23. Index 265
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