New perspectives on European women's legal history / edited by Sara L. Kimble and Marion Rowekamp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Gender and family law -- Adaptation, emulation, or tradition? Greek family law and the courts in the first decades of the modern Greek state / Evdoxios Doxiadis -- Family law, legal reforms, female lawyers and feminist claims in Spain, 1868-1950 / Gloria Nielfa -- Democracy at home : debating family and marriage law in the first Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1938 / Melissa Feinberg -- Equality at stake : legal and national discourses on family law in Czechoslovakia -- 1918-1931 / Jana Osterkamp -- Pt. II. Women in the legal professions -- The rise of "modern Portias" : feminist legal activism in Republican France, 1890s-1940s / Sara L. Kimble -- Women and the courts in twentieth-century Belgium : an historical perspective / Eva Schandevyl -- The first lawyers and attorneys : the struggle for professional recognition of women's rights in Yugoslavia, 1918-1953 / Gordana Stojakovic -- Bulgarian women in legal education and the legal profession during the first half of the twentieth century / Krassimira Daskalova -- "The Napoleonic Civil Code is to blame for my decision to study law" : female law students and lawyers in the second Polish Republic (1918-1939) / Iwona Dadej -- Women, equal rights and the legal profession in Germany, 1895-1933 / Marion R�owekamp -- Feminism and criminology in Britain, 1910-1950 / Anne Logan -- Attempting to advocate---women entering the legal profession in Finland, 1885-1915 / Mia Korpiola -- Part III. Transnational and international intersections -- Tracking feminist interventions in international law issues at the league of nations : from the nationality of married women to legal equality in the family, 1919-1970 / Catherine Jacques -- "Who belongs" or the question of women's citizenship in Switzerland since 1798 / Regina Wecker -- Legal position of women in Portugal : the case of the Standing Committee on Legislation of the National Council of Portuguese Women (CNMP), 1914-1947 / Anne Cova -- Night work for white women and bonded labour for "native" women? Contentious traditions and the globalization of gender-specific labour protection and legal equality politics, 1926 to 1939 / Susan Zimmermann.