A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics - Couverture souple

Wells, Celia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909976660 ISBN 13 : 9781909976665

Editeur : Waterside Press, 2019

Synopsis

Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. Her unconventional early life was shaped by her Communist Party parents, she grew up as 'town' not 'gown' in Oxford, surrounded by books but living in a council house. She has uncovered an intriguing backstory with a bigamous grandmother, a convicted forger cousin transported to Australia in the 1840s, and the rise and fall of landed gentry.

The author describes her parents' bohemian friends and their coded language and uses their original wartime correspondence to produce a picture of a fascinating heritage which ran against the grain and shaped an inquiring mind. A Woman in Law shows how the post-war political landscape provided opportunities for women yet failed to shift many entrenched advantages of gender and class.

Tracing the rocky path to becoming Cardiff University's first female law professor, the author shows how her distinctive academic research led to different approaches to teaching criminal law as well as contributing to key reforms described in the book. As she asserts, 'I wanted to write about my rather confused political and cultural background, and to relate it to my professional and personal life, to my academic writing, to my relationships, and my beliefs, my experiences of suicide and addiction in my close family.'

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Celia Wells is Emerita Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bristol. An early exponent of the need to understand law in wider contexts, in 1995 she became the first woman law professor at Cardiff. Awarded the OBE in 2006, she is a past President of the Society of Legal Scholars.

Nicola Lacey CBE is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. From 2010 until September 2013 she was Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law School and at New York University Law School. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, served as a member of the academy's Policy Group on Prisons, which reported in 2014, and is its nominee on the Board of the British Museum. In 2017 she was awarded a CBE for services to Law, Justice and Gender Politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Waterside Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909976660
• ISBN 13: 9781909976665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible