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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Womens Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland by Edited by Erika Rackley Edited by Professor Rosemary Auchmuty
iWomen’s Legal Landmarks /icommemorates the centenary of women’s admission in 1919 tothe legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarksin women’s legal history. Over 90 authors write on landmarks that represent asignificant achievement or marked an important stage or turning point inwomen’s engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks embrace a wide rangeof topics including the right to vote equal pay forced marriage sexualviolence abortion and the ordination of women bishops as well as the lifestories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions.The collection was produced using an established feminist practice whereby eachcontribution was presented in collaborative workshops to ensure sharedknowledge and insights into both the legal area and the historical context. iWomen’s Legal Landmarks /ioffers ascholarly intervention into the recovery of women’s lost history employing themethodology of feminist legal history to provide accounts which are accurate asto both law and historical context and which taken together demonstratewomen’s agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice.