'I'm not one of those women's libber type people but...': Gender, class and professional power within the third branch of the English legal profession

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-493

  Francis, Andrew ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class; Gender; Identity; Lawyers; Legal executives; Professions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750697284     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663906066619     Document Type: Article

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