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Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Lives in the Law

By: Jill Norgren

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Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Lives in the Law

By: Jill Norgren

The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

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1479805998

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9781479805990

Belva Lockwood

The Woman Who Would Be President

By: Jill Norgren

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Belva Lockwood

The Woman Who Would Be President

By: Jill Norgren

Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century’s most surprising and accomplished advocates for women’s rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans. Obscured for too long in the historical shadow of her longtime colleague, Susan B. Anthony, Lockwood steps into the limelight at last in this engaging new biography. Born on a farm in upstate New York in 1830, Lockwood married young and reluctantly became a farmer’s wife. After her husband's premature death, however, she earned a college degree, became a teacher, and moved to Washington, DC with plans to become an attorney-an occupation all but closed to women. Not only did she become one of the first female attorneys in the U.S., but in 1879 became the first woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court. In 1884 Lockwood continued her trailblazing ways as the first woman to run a full campaign for the U.S. Presidency. She ran for President again in 1888. Although her candidacies were unsuccessful (as she knew they would be), Lockwood demonstrated that women could compete with men in the political arena. After these campaigns she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal Peace Union, hoping, until her death in 1917, that she, or the organization, would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Belva Lockwood deserves to be far better known. As Norgren notes, it is likely that Lockwood would be widely recognized today as a feminist pioneer if most of her personal papers had not been destroyed after her death. Fortunately for readers, Norgren shares much of her subject’s tenacity and she has ensured Lockwood’s rightful place in history with this meticulously researched and beautifully written book.

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0814758517

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Rebels at the Bar

The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers

By: Jill Norgren

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Rebels at the Bar

The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers

By: Jill Norgren

In Rebels at the Bar, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a small group of nineteenth century women who were among the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning in the late 1860s, these determined rebels pursued the radical ambition of entering the then all-male profession of law. They were motivated by a love of learning. They believed in fair play and equal opportunity. They desired recognition as professionals and the ability to earn a good living. Rebels at the Bar expands our understanding of both women's rights and the history of the legal profession in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the female renegades who trained in law and then, like men, fought considerable odds to create successful professional lives. In this engaging and beautifully written book, Norgren shares her subjects' faith in the art of the possible. In so doing, she ensures their place in history.

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NYU Press

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1479835528

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The Cherokee Cases

Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty

By: Jill Norgren

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The Cherokee Cases

Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty

By: Jill Norgren

This compact history is the first to explore two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of the early 1830s: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia. Legal historian Jill Norgren details the extraordinary story behind these cases, describing how John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee Nation, having internalized the principles of American law, tested their sovereignty rights before Chief Justice John Marshall in the highest court of the land. The Cherokees’ goal was to solidify these rights and to challenge the aggressive actions that the government and people of Georgia carried out against them under the aegis of law. Written in a style accessible both to students and to general readers, The Cherokee Cases is an ideal guide to understanding the political development of the Cherokee Nation in the early nineteenth century and the tragic outcome of these cases so critical to the establishment of U.S. federal Indian law.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806136065

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9780806136066

Belva Lockwood

Equal Rights Pioneer

By: Jill Norgren

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Belva Lockwood

Equal Rights Pioneer

By: Jill Norgren

Retells the life and career of Belva Lockwood, a women's rights advocate in the nineteenth century, who became the first woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court and run for president.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822590689

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Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Lives in the Law

By: Jill Norgren

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The Cherokee Cases

Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty

By: Jill Norgren

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Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty

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Rebels at the Bar

The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers

By: Jill Norgren

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The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers

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Belva Lockwood

The Woman Who Would Be President

By: Jill Norgren

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The Woman Who Would Be President

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Women's Concerns

Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Jill Christine Jepson

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Women's Concerns

Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

By: Jill Christine Jepson

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women's businesses - from small local concerns to financial empires - offered women independence, supported their families, and supplied essential goods and services to their communities and the world. They also contributed to much-needed legal and social change and set the stage for the female entrepreneurs who would come later. All this was accomplished despite immense financial barriers, an inequitable legal system, and the widely held belief that women had no business in business. Women's Concerns explores the lives of twelve women who owned and operated businesses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the ways they created personal and public identities and managed the contradictions between their entrepreneurial ambitions and deeply entrenched attitudes about women's roles.

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Peter Lang

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1433104237

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Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations

By: Donald W. Pfaff,Robert T Rubin,Jill E. Schneider,Geoff Head

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Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations

By: Donald W. Pfaff,Robert T Rubin,Jill E. Schneider,Geoff Head

Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the underlying principles of endocrine regulation of behavior, a newly emerging area of research within neurobiology and endocrinology. It addresses the properties of hormone/behavior relations, including the influence of family background, timing issues, neuroanatomical features, cellular mechanisms, and the importance of environmental context and evolution. This new edition incorporates critical advances in the field, also including increased coverage of hormonal influences on food intake, and on the cardiovascular system. The addition of entirely new principles provides further coverage of epigenetics and appetite. Thoroughly revised and updated, this book is an ideal resource for neuroscientists and researchers engaging in this rapidly expanding field of study. - Provides a unique structure where each chapter addresses a key principle that is illustrated by numerous basic experimental and clinical examples - Includes user-friendly features, such as boxed figures with extended captions and references, numerous clinical notes, and a comprehensive list of abbreviations - Contains numerous illustrations that highlight both the clinical and basic science information

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Academic Press

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0128026677

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An American Geography: One Family's Journey

By: Jill P May

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An American Geography: One Family's Journey

By: Jill P May

Thisonefamily'sjourneyacrossthe unsettledWest demonstrates howits understandings of family identity andselfhoodwere fostered. Beginning in the late 1880s, each member's perspective of the past and the future evolved as they moved from the Midwest to the West and finally settled in various regions of the United States.Thischronicleoffamilymovementandcultural assimilation contains anideologyof America that often frames stories told about family and history.

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Book's by Jill Norgren

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Belva Lockwood

Belva Lockwood

Rebels at the Bar

Rebels at the Bar

The Cherokee Cases

The Cherokee Cases

Belva Lockwood

Belva Lockwood

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

The Cherokee Cases

The Cherokee Cases

Rebels at the Bar

Rebels at the Bar

Belva Lockwood

Belva Lockwood

Women's Concerns

Women's Concerns

Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations

Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations

An American Geography: One Family's Journey

An American Geography: One Family's Journey

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