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The Women's Legal Landmarks Project: Celebrating 100 Years of Women in the Law in the UK and Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2016

Rosemary Auchmuty  and
Erika Rackley
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Abstract

This article by Rosemary Auchmuty and Erika Rackley introduces the Women's Legal Landmarks Project. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving feminist scholars from law and other disciplines engaging in the process of identifying, researching and producing critical accounts of the key legal events, cases and statutes which represent significant turning points for women in the UK and Ireland. In creating the first scholarly anthology of legal landmarks for women spanning four jurisdictions and spanning eleven centuries, it seeks to contribute both to the development of the discipline of feminist legal history as well as societal understandings of the contribution women have made to public life and, more specifically, their involvement in the production of law, law reform and justice.

Keywords

women and the lawfeminismlegal professionlegal history
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 30 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Thomas, T.A. and Boisseau, T.J. (eds), Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law. New York: New York University Press 2011, p.1.

2 Ibid p.2.

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5 For instance, Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century, Cambridge UP 2009; The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: from Fornicators to Family 1600–2010, Cambridge UP 2012.

6 See the Institute of Advanced Studies' YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNJnkXq2mIAIIJ42jES2fJQ [accessed 26 January 2016].

7 See Maynard, M. and Purvis, J (eds) Researching Women's Lives from a Feminist Perspective. London: Taylor & Francis 1994; British Library, ‘Sisterhood and After: an oral history of the Women's Liberation Movement’. http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/sisterhood/, last accessed 2/11/14.