Petticoats and Prejudice

by Constance Backhouse

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Euphemia Rabbitt, who courageously resisted a vicious rape attempt, and Clara Brett Martin, the first woman admitted to the bar in the British Empire, were widely admired in their own time. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed that all women should be protected by law from sexual assault and was viciously maligned for her ideas, and Nellie Armstrong, whose attempt to wrest her young children from her estranged and violent husband went down...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0889611610

ISBN13:9780889611610

Release Date:January 1991

Publisher:Canadian Scholars Press

Length:467 Pages

Weight:1.84 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Americas Canada Civil Procedure Education & Reference Gender & the Law Gender Studies History Humanities Law Legal Theory & Systems Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Rules & Procedures Social Sciences Textbooks Women in History Women's Studies World

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