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Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law


ISBN13: 9781509929412
Published: September 2022
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £90.00
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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.

Subjects:
Family Law
Contents:
Foreword by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Archive References
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: After the Vote
1. Quiet Revolutionaries
2. Housewives: 'That Vast Army of the Great Unpaid'
Interlude: Juanita Frances
3. A Composite Portrait
4. A New Marriage Law
5. Mrs Blackwell
Interlude: A Note About Lord Denning
6. The Split
Interlude: Reform Movements Are Like Builders
7. One Step at a Time
8. Resistance as a Reform Strategy
Interlude: Poor Reggie
9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
10. A Subterranean Influence
Afterword

Bibliography
Index