Women's History Month - Women Lawyers

In honor of Women’s History Month, you might want to learn more about an important woman lawyer by checking out one of the following books:

• America’s First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell by Jane Friedman (1993) (link to Wikipedia article)
• Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney by Dina Kaminskaya (1982) (link to obituary in Washington Post)

• Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi (2006) (link to Wikipedia article)

For more about women lawyers in general, one of the following works may be of interest:

• The Counselors: Conversations With 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World by Elizabeth Vrato (2002)
• The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions by Mary Jane Mossman (2006)

• Pinstripes and Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law School Class of ‘64 Who Forged an Old-Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations by Judith Richards Hope (2003)

On a lighter note, you can check out the 1949 feature film Adam’s Rib starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as a husband and wife lawyer team who clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse;

or one of the library’s popular reading fiction selections featuring women lawyers, such as Dead Ringer or Red Dust.

J. Fusaris