Petticoats And Prejudice: Women And Law In Nineteenth Century Canada by Constance Backhouse

Petticoats And Prejudice: Women And Law In Nineteenth Century Canada

Constance Backhouse

467 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced
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Euphemia Rabbitt, who courageously resisted a vicious rape attempt, and Clara Brett Martin, the first woman admitted to the bar in the British Empire, were widely admired in their own time. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed that all wome...

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