Special issue: Challenging Women

A special issue on "Challenging Women" features research on women in British (and South Asian) legal history. Here's the line-up from the Women's History Review, vol.29, issue 4 (2020), edited by Judith Bourne and Caroline Morris, both of St. Mary's University, London: 

• Judith Bourne and Caroline Morris, "Introducing Challenging Women"
• Alison Lindsay, " 'This fair lady, in her laces': Margaret Howie Strang Hall, the first woman in Scotland to try to become a lawyer"
• Mari Takayanagi, "Sacred year or broken reed? The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919"
• Caroline Morris, "Dr Ivy Williams: inside yet outside"
• Caroline Derry, "Ethel Bright Ashford: more and less than a role model"
• Rosalind Wright, "Sybil Campbell, first woman judge and supporter of higher education for women"
• Charlotte Coleman, "Thwarted ambitions: the biography of Auvergne Doherty, an aspiring female barrister"
• Judith Bourne, "Helena Normanton: legal crusader or myth Maker? '[S]urely the one thing history teaches us is that we cannot generalise, or even worse, categorise individual humans into saints and sinners, or heroes and villains"
• Alana Harris, "'Lady Doctor among the "Called"': Dr Letitia Fairfield and Catholic medico-legal activism beyond the bar"
• Helen Kay and Rose Pipes, "Chrystal Macmillan, Scottish campaigner for women's equality through law reform"
• Mary Jane Mossman, "Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954): a pioneer woman lawyer in Britain and India"
• Pat Thane, "Afterword: challenging women in the British professions"

Further information is available here.

--Mitra Sharafi