The first women lawyers a comparative study of gender law and the legal professions author mary jane mossman publisher bloomsbury publishing 2006 isbn 1847310958 9781847310958 length. About the first women lawyers this comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive societal change including new and expanding opportunities for women as well as a variety of proposals for reforming law legal education and standards of legal professionalism by . the first women lawyers a comparative study of gender law and the legal professions the first women lawyers a comparative study of gender law and the legal professions by mossman mary jane author may 30 2006 paperback mossman mary jane isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The first women lawyers a comparative study of gender law and the legal professions mary jane mossman this comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries their . The first women lawyers a comparative study of gender law and the legal professions by mary jane mossman hart oxford portland 2006 329pp pbk isbn 184113 590 9 margaret thornton it is a notable characteristic of several thousand years of western civilisation that the public sphere has been a masculinist domain while the private sphere qua family has been feminised