Women’s History Month - In the Social Law Collection
Posted: Mar 01, 2018
For Women’s History Month we’ve selected books in our collection that spotlight the history and current state of women in the government and legal communities. Some titles focus on pioneers who defied the men who told them that they weren’t qualified to practice law or serve as judges or legislators. Others offer advice on overcoming the obstacles to equal opportunity that remain.
Books in the Social Law Collection
| Founding mothers : the women who raised our nation / Cokie Roberts. |
| Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation / Cokie Roberts. |
| American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans / Eve LaPlante. |
| The woman behind the New Deal : the life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his moral conscience / Kirstin Downey. |
| No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship / Linda K. Kerber. |
| The spirit of Houston : the first National Women's Conference : an official report to the president, the Congress and the people of the United States. |
| American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey, Janice E. Ruth, Barbara Orbach Natanson, Sara Day and Evelyn Sinclair introduction by Susan Ware. |
| When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present / Gail Collins. |
| Her turn : why it's time for women to lead in America / Vicki Donlan with Helen French Graves. |
| Voices for women : 1980 report of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. |
| Women in Congress, 1917-2006 / prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives, by the Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. |
| From visible invisibility to visibly successful : success strategies for law firms and women of color in law firms / ABA Commission on Women in the Profession prepared for the Commission by Arin N. Reeves. |
| Visible invisibility : women of color in law firms / ABA Commission on Women in the Profession prepared for the Commission by Janet E. Gans Epner. |
| What it takes : how women of color can thrive within the practice of law / Monica R. Parker. |
| Visible invisibility : women of color in Fortune 500 legal departments / ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. |
| Dear sisters, dear daughters : strategies for success from multicultural women attorneys / [C. Elisia Frazier, Ernestine Forrest, editor]. |
| Breaking barriers : the unfinished story of women lawyers and judges in Massachusetts / Patti B. Saris, Margot Botsford, Barbara F. Berenson, editors. |
| Sisters in law : women lawyers in modern American history / Virginia G. Drachman. |
| Women-at-law : lessons learned along the pathways to success / Phyllis Horn Epstein with a foreword by Nina E. Olson. |
| Women lawyers : rewriting the rules / Mona Harrington. |
| It's harder in heels : essays by women lawyers achieving work-life balance / Jacquelyn Hersch Slotkin & Samantha Slotkin Goodman, editors and contributors. |
| The invisible bar : the woman lawyer in America, 1638 to the present / Karen Berger Morello. |
| Presumed equal : what America's top women lawyers really think about their firms / by Suzanne Nossel and Elizabeth Westfall. |
| Pioneering women lawyers : from Kate Stoneman to the present / Patricia E. Salkin, editor. |
| Ending the gauntlet : removing barriers to women's success in the law / Lauren Stiller Rikleen. |
| Sisters-in-law : an uncensored guide for women practicing law in the real world / Lisa G. Sherman, Deborah L. Turchiano, Jill R. Schecter. |
| The woman advocate / Abbe F. Fletman and Evelyn R. Storch, editors. |
| Women lawyers in leadership 2018 / chair Jayne A. Goldstein. |
| Women on top : the woman's guide to leadership and power in law firms. |
| Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world / Linda Hirshman. |
| Sandra Day O'Connor : how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice / Joan Biskupic. |
| My beloved world / Sonia Sotomayor. |
| Celebrating Vermont's first 100 women lawyers : 1902-1978. |
| Madame Prosecutor : confrontations with humanity's worst criminals and the culture of impunity : a memoir / Carla Del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic. |
| Final judgment : my life as a Soviet defense attorney / Dina Kaminskaya translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. |