Publication

2009 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,250 words, Guess

Page Count

197 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more

Classifications

  • DDC340.082/0973
  • LCCKF299.W6 B38 2009
  • LCCHM401-1281HD6951-HD6
and 1 more
  • LCCH1-970.9

Description

Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women attorneys rarely sue their employers, and often do not challenge discriminatory behavior. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, where lawyers fail to employ the legal system on their own behalf. By exploring attorneys' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality. The Internet community itself provides a protected, semi-anonymous forum in which to engage in such discourse, thereby subverting many of the barriers that currently exist to challenging gender inequality in the legal practice.

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