Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession

Abstract

The fictive feminine virtuous woman disorderly woman positioning the picket fence legal narratives the triumph of ideology a postmodern paradox the maiden Bachelor of Law Sweet Girl Graduates with their Golden Hair women of Electric Perceptive Intuition women as non-persons after the first wave education for corporatisation the constitution of legal knowledge the docile law student beyond the tipping academic affairs bureaucratised authority the gendered academy the revolving door the neutral woman of law the sexual regime sentinels at the portals solicitors - corporatised and commodified psychic income in lieu in the shadow of benchmark man contingent authority camaraderie and clubs quasi-partners auxiliaries of the bar women on the woolsack professional politics - (i) law societies, (ii) women lawyers, (iii) feminist activism body politics the discourse of femininity dresscodes the mother as other the pervasiveness of discrimination ineffability of sexual harassment manned or damned. Conclusion: fragile frontiers from feminity to feminisation affective practice rewriting the social script. Appendix: list of abbreviations.

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