Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change - Softcover

Guinier, Lani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807044059 ISBN 13: 9780807044056

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1997

Synopsis

As a student at Yale Law School in 1974, Lani Guinier attended a class with a white male professor who addressed all the students, male and female, as "gentlemen." To him the greeting was a form of honorific, evoking the values of traditional legal education. To her it was profoundly alienating. Years later Guinier began a study of female law students with her colleagues, Michelle Fine and Jane Balin, to try to understand the frustrations of women law students in male-dominated schools. In Becoming Gentlemen Guinier, Fine, and Balin dare us to question what it means to become qualified, what a fair goal in education might be, and what we can learn from the experience of women law students about teaching and evaluating students in general. Including the authors' original study and two essays and a personal afterword by Lani Guinier, the book challenges us to work toward a more just society, based on ideals of cooperation, the resources of diversity, and the values of teamwork.

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Becoming Gentlemen (Paper) # As a student at Yale Law School in 1974, Lani Guinier attended a class with a white male professor who addressed all the students, male and female, as "gentlemen." To him the greeting was a form of honorific, evoking the values of traditional legal education. To her it was profoundly alienating. Years later Guinier began a study of female law students with her colleagues, Michelle Fine and Jane Balin, to try to understand the frustrations of women law students in male-dominated schools. In Becoming Gentlemen Guinier, Fine, and Balin dare us to question what it means to become qualified, what a fair goal in education might be, and what we can learn from the e...

About the Author:

Lani Guinier is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Michelle Fine is professor of social psychology at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York; and Jane Balin is assistant professor of sociology at Colgate University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807044059
• ISBN 13: 9780807044056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188