Trial By Woman
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Trial By Woman
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Author : Courtney Rowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Trial By Woman written by Courtney Rowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with categories.
Framing Female Lawyers
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Author : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-11-03
Framing Female Lawyers written by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-03 with Performing Arts categories.
As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.
Gender Trials
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Author : Jennifer L. Pierce
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-02-15
Gender Trials written by Jennifer L. Pierce and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals. Working as a paralegal, Pierce did ethnographic research in two law offices, and her depiction of the legal world is quite unlike the glamorized version seen on television. Pierce tellingly portrays the dilemma that female attorneys face: a woman using tough, aggressive tactics—the ideal combative litigator—is often regarded as brash or even obnoxious by her male colleagues. Yet any lack of toughness would mark her as ineffective. Women paralegals also face a double bind in corporate law firms. While lawyers depend on paralegals for important work, they also expect these women—for most paralegals are women—to nurture them and affirm their superior status in the office hierarchy. Paralegals who mother their bosses experience increasing personal exploitation, while those who do not face criticism and professional sanction. Male paralegals, Pierce finds, do not encounter the same difficulties that female paralegals do. Pierce argues that this gendered division of labor benefits men politically, economically, and personally. However, she finds that women lawyers and paralegals develop creative strategies for resisting and disrupting the male-dominated status quo. Her lively narrative and well-argued analysis will be welcomed by anyone interested in today's gender politics and business culture.
The Crimes Of Womanhood
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Author : A. Cheree Carlson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
The Crimes Of Womanhood written by A. Cheree Carlson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. By examining the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters of women's trials in newspaper articles, trial transcriptions, and popular accounts, A. Cheree Carlson argues that the men in charge of these communication avenues were able to transform their own values and morals into believable narratives that persuaded judges, juries, and the general public of a woman's guilt or innocence. Carlson analyzes the situations of several women of varying historical stature, from the insanity trials of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzie Borden's trial for the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother, to lesser-known trials involving insanity, infidelity, murder, abortion, and interracial marriage. The insanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, the wife of a minister, resulted from her attempts to change her own religion, while a jury acquitted Mary Harris for killing her married lover, suggesting that loss of virginity to an adulterous man was justifiable grounds for homicide. The popular conception of abortion as a "woman's crime" came to the fore in the case of Ann Loman (also known as Madame Restell), who performed abortions in New York both before and after it became a crime. Finally, Alice Rhinelander was sued for fraud by her new husband Leonard for "passing" as white, but the jury was more moved by the notion of Alice being betrayed as a woman by her litigious husband than by the supposed defrauding of Leonard as a white male. Alice won the case, but the image of womanhood as in need of sympathy and protection won out as well. At the heart of these cases, Carlson reveals clearly just how narrow was the line that women had to walk, since the same womanly virtues that were expected of them--passivity, frailty, and purity--could be turned against them at any time. These trials of popular status are especially significant because they reflect the attitudes of the broad audience, indicate which forms of knowledge are easily manipulated, and allow us to analyze how the verdict is argued outside the courtroom in the public and press. With gripping retellings and incisive analysis of these scandalous criminal and civil cases, this book will appeal to historians, rhetoricians, feminist researchers, and anyone who enjoys courtroom drama.
Jury Woman
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Author : Mary Timothy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Jury Woman written by Mary Timothy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"As foreperson of the Angela Davis jury, Mary Timothy ushers us into the courtroom and provides us with rinside sears at what has been called "the trial of the century." Jury Woman reveals gross inequities in the jury system itself -- for which Mary Timothy offers nine points for radical reform." -- Publisher's description.
A Woman Scorned
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Author : Peggy Sanday
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-12-14
A Woman Scorned written by Peggy Sanday and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-14 with History categories.
2011 Edition with a New Afterword by the author The venerable and often misquoted phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" continues to haunt American women who accuse men of sexual harassment and rape. In this bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape, anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with a harrowing account of the St. John's rape case, Sanday reaches back through British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial. Whether she is charged as a false accuser, gold digger, loose or scorned woman, stereotypes prevail. American jurisprudence and the public at large remain divided on acquaintance rape. With the passage of the Violence Against Women Act—one of the most important legislation for women—a new breed of antifeminists stepped up to the plate to subordinate women's bid for sexual autonomy and freedom. A groundbreaking, classic work of scholarship that coherently challenges the anti-rape backlash and its rhetoric, A Woman Scorned continues to bring a broad perspective to our understanding of acquaintance rape, even if its original vision of a new paradigm for female sexual equality awaits implementation.
Woman On Trial
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Author : Lawrencia Bembenek
language : en
Publisher: HarperPrism
Release Date : 1992
Woman On Trial written by Lawrencia Bembenek and has been published by HarperPrism this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Convicts categories.
Lawerencia Bembeck is charged and convicted of murder. But she claims she is innocent -- framed.
Woman Lawyer
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Author : Barbara Babcock
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-05
Woman Lawyer written by Barbara Babcock and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-05 with Law categories.
Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a jury lawyer, public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, inventor of the role of public defender, and legal reformer, Foltz has been largely forgotten until recently. Woman Lawyer not only recreates her eventful life, but also casts new light on the turbulent history and politics of the late nineteenth century and the many links binding the women's rights movement with other reform movements.
Defending Battered Women On Trial
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Author : Elizabeth A. Sheehy
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2013-12-15
Defending Battered Women On Trial written by Elizabeth A. Sheehy and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the trials of eleven battered women, ten of whom killed their partners, in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Drawing extensively on trial transcripts and a rich expanse of interdisciplinary sources, the author looks at the evidence produced at trial and at how self-defence was argued. By illuminating these cases, this book uncovers the practical and legal dilemmas faced by battered women on trial for murder.
Guilty Without Trial
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Author : Carolyn Sleightholme
language : en
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Release Date : 1996
Guilty Without Trial written by Carolyn Sleightholme and has been published by Popular Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
The Authors Write With Rare Perception And Sensitivity About The Lives Of Sex Workers In Calcutta Who Have Shared Their Stories With Them.