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BARRED FROM THE BAR -- A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION

SUGGESTED READING

BOOKS

Books especially recommended for students are marked with an asterisk (*) .

*Abramson, Jill, and Barbara Franklin. Where They Are Now: The Story of the Women of Harvard Law 1974. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986.

Aptheker, Bettina. Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

Baer, Judith A. Women in American Law: The Struggle toward Equality from the New Deal to the Present. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1991.

Chester, Ronald. Unequal Access. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey publishers, 1985.

*Cockcroft, James D. Hispanics in the Struggle for Equal Education. New York: Franklin Watts, 1995.

*Cockcroft, James D. The Hispanic Struggle for Social Justice. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

*Covey, Alan, ed. A Century of Women. Atlanta: Turner publishing, 1994.

Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race & Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Davis, Martha F., Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

DeCrow, Karen. Sexist Justice. New York: Random House, 1974.

Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. Women in Law. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash. New York: Crown publishers, 1991.

*Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Balknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959.

*Friedman, Jane M. America's First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993.

*Garza, Hedda. Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

*Garza, Hedda. Women in Medicine. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

*Gilbert, Lynn, and Gaylen Moore. Particular Passions. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1981.

Harrington, Mona. Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

*Kanellos, Nicolas, ed. The Hispanic-American Almanac. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.

Hunter College. Women's Realities, Women's Choices. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

*James, Marlise. The People's Lawyers. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

Kanowitz, Leo. Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.

MacKinnon, Catharine A. Feminism Unmodified. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

*Morello, Karen Berger. The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1986.

*Pleck, Elizabeth H., and Ellen K. Rothman, with Paula Shields The Legacies Book. Washington, D.C.: The Annenberg/CPB Project, 1987.

*Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

*Sterling, Dorothy. Tear Down the Walls! A History of the American Civil Rights Movement. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.

*Telgen, Diane, and Jim Kamp, eds. Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.

*Warner, Judith. Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story. New York: Signet, 1993.

*Weddington, Sarah. A Question of Choice. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992.

Wice, Paul B. Criminal Lawyers: An Endangered Species. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage publications, 1978

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: HarperPerennial, 1990.

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