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Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession
Dissonance and Distrust Women in the Legal Profession Author:Margaret Thornton This path-breaking book examines the experiences of women in the legal profession in Australia. It looks at the relationship between the feminine and the public sphere through a study of women as members of the jurisprudential community. It challenges the assumption that women will become accepted within the legal community as increasing numbers... more » are "let in". The fiction that the feminine is associated with disorder has resulted in the implementation of disciplinary strategies designed to curb refractory women. Dissonance and Distrust reveals the ways in which the "fictive feminine" is invoked to deny authority to professional women.« less