Quiet Revolutionaries

The Married Women's Association and Family Law

AvSharon Thompson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book tells the untold story of the Married Women’s Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists.Formed in 1938, the Married Women’s Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Quiet Revolutionaries sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members’ friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up.Winner of the SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Book Prize 2023.To listen to podcast episodes about the Married Women’s Association, featuring interviews and archival research, visit quietrevolutionaries.podbean.com.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-08
Mått:242 x 166 x 34 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781509929412

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Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.

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I believe this book to be of central importance to scholars studying the history of women and feminist movements, and family law in the twentieth century. It is so rare for a legal history book to truly convey how and why the law developed in the way it did, and the significance of these developments to the people subject to the legislation. In Quiet Revolutionaries, Sharon Thompson has raised the bar for those of us working in the field.

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Foreword by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of RichmondAcknowledgmentsTimelineArchive ReferencesList of AbbreviationsPrologue: After the Vote1. Quiet Revolutionaries2. Housewives: ‘That Vast Army of the Great Unpaid’Interlude: Juanita Frances3. A Composite Portrait4. A New Marriage Law5. Mrs BlackwellInterlude: A Note About Lord Denning6. The SplitInterlude: Reform Movements Are Like Builders7. One Step at a Time8. Resistance as a Reform StrategyInterlude: Poor Reggie9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back10. A Subterranean InfluenceAfterwordBibliographyIndex

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