Erika Rackley, University of Kent and Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading have co-edited the volume, Women's Legal Landmarks celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland with Hart. From the press:
1. Women's Legal Landmarks: An Introduction
Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty
THE LANDMARKS
2. Cyfraith Hywel (The Laws of Hywel Dda), c. 940
Carol Howells
3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft , 1792
Anna Jobe
4. Gaols Act 1823
Ruth Lamont
5. The Slave, Grace (1827)
Rosemary Auchmuty
6. A Brief Summary of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1854
Joanne Conaghan
7. Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
Penelope Russell
8. Married Women's Property Act 1882
Andy Hayward
9. First Woman Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Helen Taylor, 1885
Janet Smith
10. Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
Lois Bibbings
11. Match Women's Strike, 1888
Jacqueline Lane
12. R v Jackson (1891)
Teresa Sutton
13. A Pageant of Great Women, Cicely Hamilton, 1909–12
Katharine Cockin
14. Representation of the People Act 1918
Mari Takayanagi
15. Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918
Hazel Biggs
16. Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 1919
Aoife O'Donoghue
17. Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
Mari Takayanagi
18. First Women Justices of the Peace, 1919
Anne Logan
19. First Woman to be Admitted to an Inn of Court, Helena Normanton, 1919
Judith Bourne
20. Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920
Colin R Moore
21. First Woman Law Agent, Madge Easton Anderson, 1920
Alison Lindsay
22. Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors, 1921
Elizabeth Cruickshank
23. First Woman to Practise as a Barrister in Ireland and the (then) United Kingdom, Averil Deverell, 1921
Liz Goldthorpe
24. First Woman Solicitor in England and Wales, Carrie Morrison, 1922
Elizabeth Cruickshank
25. Matrimonial Causes Act 1923
Penelope Russell
26. First Woman Member of the Faculty of Advocates, Margaret Kidd, 1923
Catriona Cairns
27. First Woman Professor of Law in Ireland, Frances Moran, 1925
Emma Hutchinson
28. DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928)
Caroline Derry
29. Edwards v Attorney General of Canada (1929)
Sarah Mercer
30. Education Act 1944
Harriet Samuels
31. Family Allowances Act 1945
Lucy Vickers
32. British Nationality Act 1948
Helen Kay and Rose Pipes
33. Married Women (Restraint Upon Anticipation) Act 1949
Rosemary Auchmuty
34. Life Peerages Act 1958
Supuni Perera
35. First Woman to Hold Regular Judicial Office in England and Wales, Rose Heilbron, 1964
Laura Lammasniemi
36. Married Women's Property Act 1964
Sharon Thompson
37. First Woman High Court Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Lane, 1965
Judith Bourne and Frances Burton
38. Abortion Act 1967
Nicky Priaulx and Natalie L Jones
39. National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967
Leonora Onaran
40. Dagenham Car Plant Strike, 1968
Dawn Watkins
41. First Woman Professor of Law in the UK, Claire Palley, 1970
Fiona Cownie
42. First Women's Refuge, 1971
Felicity Kaganas
43. Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972
Anne Logan
44. Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Anne Morris
45. First Rape Crisis Centre, 1976
Alison Diduck
46. Section 4 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976
Clare McGlynn and Julia Downes
47. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977
Laura Binger and Helen Carr
48. Davis v Johnson (1978)
Susan Edwards
49. Health (Family Planning) Act 1979
Máiréad Enright
50. Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland (1980)
Rosemary Auchmuty
51. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981–2000
Elizabeth Woodcraft
52. Gill and Coote v El Vino Co Ltd (1982)
Anne Morris
53. Women and the Law, Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett, 1984
Brenda Hale and Susan Atkins
54. Warnock Report, 1984
Kirsty Horsey
55. Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985
Phyllis Livaha
56. Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority (1985)
Emma Nottingham
57. Grant v Edwards (1986)
Joanne Beswick
58. Section 32 of the Finance Act 1998
Ann Mumford
59. First Woman Court of Appeal Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 1988
Dana Denis-Smith
60. Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990
Susan Leahy
61. First Woman President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, 1990
Leah Treanor
62. Foundation of the Association of Women Barristers, 1991
Frances Burton
63. R v Ahluwalia (1993)
Siobhan Weare
64. Feminist Legal Studies Journal, 1993
Rosemary Hunter
65. Barclays Bank v O'Brien (1993)
Sarah Greer
66. Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2) (1994)
Debra Morris
67. First Woman to Lead a Top 10 Law Firm in England and Wales, Lesley MacDonagh, 1995
Steven Vaughan
68. Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1995
Laura Cahillane
69. St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S (1998)
Kay Lalor, Anne Morris and Annapurna Waughray
70. Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999
Sonia Kalsi
71. Islam v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another, ex parte Shah (1999)
Nora Honkala
72. White v White (2000)
Jonathan Herring
73. Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002
Susan Atkins
74. Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
Nikki Godden-Rasul
75. National Assembly for Wales Election, 2003
Catrin Fflûr Huws
76. Mental Capacity Act 2005
Rosie Harding
77. UK Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW), 2005
Meghan Campbell
78. Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
Pragna Patel
79. First Woman Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Patricia Scotland, 2007
Linda Mulcahy
80. Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009
F Vera-Gray
81. Radmacher v Granatino (2010)
Marie Parker
82. Concluding Observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland Regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011
Maeve O'Rourke
83. Birmingham City Council v Abdulla (2012)
Harini Iyengar
84. Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012
Ivana Bacik
85. Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013
Fiona de Londras
86. R v Nimmo and Sorley (2014)
Kim Barker
87. Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014 and Canon C2 'Of the Consecration of Bishops', 2014
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
88. In the Matter of an Application for Judicial Review by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2015)
Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuinness
89. Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015
Olga Jurasz
90. Section 2 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016
Erika Rackley
91. First Woman President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, 2017
Erika Rackley
92. Thirty-sixth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, 2018
Fiona de Londras
Table of Contents after the jump:Women's Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women's admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women's legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women's engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, including matrimonial property, the right to vote, prostitution, surrogacy and assisted reproduction, rape, domestic violence, FGM, equal pay, abortion, image-based sexual abuse, and the ordination of women bishops, as well as the life stories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions. Together the landmarks offer a scholarly intervention in the recovery of women's lost history and in the development of methodology of feminist legal history as well as a demonstration of women's agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice.
1. Women's Legal Landmarks: An Introduction
Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty
THE LANDMARKS
2. Cyfraith Hywel (The Laws of Hywel Dda), c. 940
Carol Howells
3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft , 1792
Anna Jobe
4. Gaols Act 1823
Ruth Lamont
5. The Slave, Grace (1827)
Rosemary Auchmuty
6. A Brief Summary of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1854
Joanne Conaghan
7. Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
Penelope Russell
8. Married Women's Property Act 1882
Andy Hayward
9. First Woman Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Helen Taylor, 1885
Janet Smith
10. Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
Lois Bibbings
11. Match Women's Strike, 1888
Jacqueline Lane
12. R v Jackson (1891)
Teresa Sutton
13. A Pageant of Great Women, Cicely Hamilton, 1909–12
Katharine Cockin
14. Representation of the People Act 1918
Mari Takayanagi
15. Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918
Hazel Biggs
16. Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 1919
Aoife O'Donoghue
17. Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
Mari Takayanagi
18. First Women Justices of the Peace, 1919
Anne Logan
19. First Woman to be Admitted to an Inn of Court, Helena Normanton, 1919
Judith Bourne
20. Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920
Colin R Moore
21. First Woman Law Agent, Madge Easton Anderson, 1920
Alison Lindsay
22. Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors, 1921
Elizabeth Cruickshank
23. First Woman to Practise as a Barrister in Ireland and the (then) United Kingdom, Averil Deverell, 1921
Liz Goldthorpe
24. First Woman Solicitor in England and Wales, Carrie Morrison, 1922
Elizabeth Cruickshank
25. Matrimonial Causes Act 1923
Penelope Russell
26. First Woman Member of the Faculty of Advocates, Margaret Kidd, 1923
Catriona Cairns
27. First Woman Professor of Law in Ireland, Frances Moran, 1925
Emma Hutchinson
28. DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928)
Caroline Derry
29. Edwards v Attorney General of Canada (1929)
Sarah Mercer
30. Education Act 1944
Harriet Samuels
31. Family Allowances Act 1945
Lucy Vickers
32. British Nationality Act 1948
Helen Kay and Rose Pipes
33. Married Women (Restraint Upon Anticipation) Act 1949
Rosemary Auchmuty
34. Life Peerages Act 1958
Supuni Perera
35. First Woman to Hold Regular Judicial Office in England and Wales, Rose Heilbron, 1964
Laura Lammasniemi
36. Married Women's Property Act 1964
Sharon Thompson
37. First Woman High Court Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Lane, 1965
Judith Bourne and Frances Burton
38. Abortion Act 1967
Nicky Priaulx and Natalie L Jones
39. National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967
Leonora Onaran
40. Dagenham Car Plant Strike, 1968
Dawn Watkins
41. First Woman Professor of Law in the UK, Claire Palley, 1970
Fiona Cownie
42. First Women's Refuge, 1971
Felicity Kaganas
43. Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972
Anne Logan
44. Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Anne Morris
45. First Rape Crisis Centre, 1976
Alison Diduck
46. Section 4 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976
Clare McGlynn and Julia Downes
47. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977
Laura Binger and Helen Carr
48. Davis v Johnson (1978)
Susan Edwards
49. Health (Family Planning) Act 1979
Máiréad Enright
50. Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland (1980)
Rosemary Auchmuty
51. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981–2000
Elizabeth Woodcraft
52. Gill and Coote v El Vino Co Ltd (1982)
Anne Morris
53. Women and the Law, Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett, 1984
Brenda Hale and Susan Atkins
54. Warnock Report, 1984
Kirsty Horsey
55. Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985
Phyllis Livaha
56. Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority (1985)
Emma Nottingham
57. Grant v Edwards (1986)
Joanne Beswick
58. Section 32 of the Finance Act 1998
Ann Mumford
59. First Woman Court of Appeal Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 1988
Dana Denis-Smith
60. Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990
Susan Leahy
61. First Woman President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, 1990
Leah Treanor
62. Foundation of the Association of Women Barristers, 1991
Frances Burton
63. R v Ahluwalia (1993)
Siobhan Weare
64. Feminist Legal Studies Journal, 1993
Rosemary Hunter
65. Barclays Bank v O'Brien (1993)
Sarah Greer
66. Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2) (1994)
Debra Morris
67. First Woman to Lead a Top 10 Law Firm in England and Wales, Lesley MacDonagh, 1995
Steven Vaughan
68. Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1995
Laura Cahillane
69. St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S (1998)
Kay Lalor, Anne Morris and Annapurna Waughray
70. Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999
Sonia Kalsi
71. Islam v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another, ex parte Shah (1999)
Nora Honkala
72. White v White (2000)
Jonathan Herring
73. Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002
Susan Atkins
74. Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
Nikki Godden-Rasul
75. National Assembly for Wales Election, 2003
Catrin Fflûr Huws
76. Mental Capacity Act 2005
Rosie Harding
77. UK Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW), 2005
Meghan Campbell
78. Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
Pragna Patel
79. First Woman Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Patricia Scotland, 2007
Linda Mulcahy
80. Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009
F Vera-Gray
81. Radmacher v Granatino (2010)
Marie Parker
82. Concluding Observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland Regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011
Maeve O'Rourke
83. Birmingham City Council v Abdulla (2012)
Harini Iyengar
84. Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012
Ivana Bacik
85. Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013
Fiona de Londras
86. R v Nimmo and Sorley (2014)
Kim Barker
87. Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014 and Canon C2 'Of the Consecration of Bishops', 2014
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
88. In the Matter of an Application for Judicial Review by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2015)
Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuinness
89. Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015
Olga Jurasz
90. Section 2 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016
Erika Rackley
91. First Woman President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, 2017
Erika Rackley
92. Thirty-sixth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, 2018
Fiona de Londras
