Machine derived contents note: Foreword - Professor Mary Jane Mossman -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Fictive Feminine -- Virtuous Woman -- Disorderly Woman -- Positioning the Picket Fence -- Legal Narratives -- The Triumph of Ideology -- A Postmodern Paradox -- 2. 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 -- 3. Education for Corporatisation -- The Constitution of Legal Knowledge -- The Docile Law Student -- Beyond the Tipping -- 4. Academic Affairs -- Bureaucratised Authority -- The Gendered Academy -- The Revolving Door -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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 -- 7. Body Politics -- The Discourse of Femininity -- Dresscodes The Mother as Other -- The Mother as Other -- The Pervasiveness of Discrimination -- Ineffability of Sexual Harassment -- Manned or Damned -- 8. Conclusion: Fragile Frontiers -- From Feminity to 'Feminisation' -- Affective Practice -- Rewriting the Social Script -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography
