Women, Their Lives, and the Law: Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

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Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Nora Honkala (University of Reading, UK)

Women, Their Lives, and the Law

Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Nora Honkala (University of Reading, UK), Sally Wheeler (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

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Hart Publishing
26 June 2025

Gender studies: women; Gender & the law; Legal history

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women’s academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside.

Just as Rosemary’s work does, the book seeks to end the marginalisation and exclusion of women in the legal world, by including them. The book begins fittingly with a discussion of Miss Bebb, the woman whose biography Auchmuty deployed to push feminist legal history into the mainstream. It turns then to a discussion of women known and unknown and their struggles within the legal profession offering within those chapters a critical appraisal of the role of history and biography as a methodology. From there it moves to consider feminist perspectives and critiques of the dominant structures of private law. This is followed by chapters that explore those who educate the legal profession within the academy. The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women’s lives.

Edited by: Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast UK), Nora Honkala (University of Reading, UK), Sally Wheeler (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781509962129
ISBN 10: 1509962123
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Barnes is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany. Nora Honkala is Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, UK. Sally Wheeler is Professor of Law and VC Designate at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.