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Women and Justice for the Poor
- A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945
Engelsk Paperback
Women and Justice for the Poor
- A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
238
ISBN-13:
9781107446410
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1107446414
Udg. Dato:
16 apr 2015
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
16 apr 2015
Forfatter(e):
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