
Women and Justice for the Poor
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This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between ''professional'' lawyers, ''lay'' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women''s history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women''s organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such ass...
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This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between ''professional'' lawyers, ''lay'' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women''s history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women''s organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such ass...
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