A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics Wells Celia
A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics Wells Celia Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. She has uncovered an intriguing backstory with a bigamous grandmother, a convicted…
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A Woman in Law: Reflections on Gender, Class and Politics Wells Celia
Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. 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. 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.
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
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