New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History

Sara L. Kimble is a historian at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Marion Röwekamp is Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at UNAM and the Colegio de México in Mexico City.

Preface

[Ute Gerhard and Karen Offen]

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Legal Cultures and Communities of Female Protest in Modern European History, 1860-1960s

[Sara L. Kimble and Marion Röwekamp]

Part I: Gender and Family Law

1. Adaptation, Emulation, or Tradition?: Greek Family Law and the Courts in the First Decades of the Modern Greek State

[Evdoxios Doxiadis]

2. Family Law, Legal Reforms, Female Lawyers and Feminist Claims in Spain, 1868-1950

[Gloria Nielfa]

3. Democracy at Home: Debating Family and Marriage Law in the First Czechoslovak Republic, 1918–1938

[Melissa Feinberg]

4. Equality at Stake: Legal and National Discourses on Family Law in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1931

[Jana Osterkamp]

Part II: Women in the Legal Professions

5. The Rise of "Modern Portias": Feminist Legal Activism in Republican France, 1890s-1940s

[Sara L. Kimble]

6. Women and the Courts in Twentieth-Century Belgium: An Historical Perspective

[Eva Schandevyl]

7. The First Lawyers and Attorneys: The Struggle for Professional Recognition of Women’s Rights in Yugoslavia, 1918-1953

[Gordana Stojaković]

8. Bulgarian Women in Legal Education and the Legal Profession During the First Half of the Twentieth Century

[Krassimira Daskalova]

9. "The Napoleonic Civil Code is to Blame for My Decision to Study Law": Female Polish Law Students and Lawyers in the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)

[Iwona Dadej]

10. Women, Equal Rights and the Legal Profession in Germany, 1895-1933

[Marion Röwekamp]

11. Feminism and Criminology in Britain, 1910-1950

[Anne Logan]

12. Attempting to Advocate: Women Entering the Legal Profession in Finland, 1885-1915

[Mia Korpiola]

Part III: Transnational and International Intersections

13. Tracking Feminist Interventions in International Law Issues at the League of Nations: From the Nationality of Married Women to Legal Equality in the Family, 1919-1970

[Catherine Jacques]

14. "Who Belongs" or the Question of Women’s Citizenship in Switzerland Since 1798

[Regina Wecker]

15. Legal Position of Women in Portugal: The Case of the Standing Committee on Legislation of the National Council of Portuguese Women (CNMP), 1914–1947

[Anne Cova]

16. Night Work for White Women and Bonded Labour for "Native" Women?: Contentious Traditions and the Globalization of Gender-Specific Labour Protection and Legal Equality Politics, 1926 to 1939

[Susan Zimmermann]