Petticoats and Prejudice

by Constance Backhouse

Euphemia Rabbitt, who courageously resisted a vicious rape attempt, and Clara Brett Martin, the first woman admitted to the bar in the British Empire, were widely admired in their own time. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed that all women should be protected by law from sexual assault and was viciously maligned for her ideas, and Nellie Armstrong, whose attempt to wrest her young children from her estranged and violent husband went down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889611610
• ISBN13: 9780889611610
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"