![]() ![]() This backdrop is vital, as Kennedy takes us on a journey (We have, as my own example, seen recently an Italian judge describing a woman as too ugly to have been raped, and an Irish judge suggesting that a woman wearing a thong must have been intending to have sex.) Unless the profession, our law making system, shapes up to equality, it will always be a man’s world, with a particularly male view. “The smell of the gentleman’s club permeates every crevice of the Inns of Court” Helena kennedy qc It may feel like the workings of the legal profession don’t affect the rest of us – but it blatantly does, and explains so much about why justice is so hard to achieve for women. ![]() However, the first chapter points to something way more disturbing.Īs the book unfurls, it becomes important, no, vital. ![]() I had never really thought about what woman face in the legal profession, and how few we see as judges etc, putting it down to factors that affect all women – mysogeny, the burden of childcare etc. It seemed to be all about the legal system from a legal profession’s perspective. When I first started with ‘Eve was Shamed’, I thought I’d picked up the wrong thing. Helena Kennedy QC, Catto and Windus 2018, audiobook recorded by Random House Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women. ![]()
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