Bar Girls: Women Lawyers on Film and Television: A Selected Bibliography

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Babicoff, Richard, How far have you come, baby? Women lawyers on TV, in movies show that it hasn't been far enough, 100 L. A. Daily J. 4 (December 21, 1987).

Bar Girls? Images of Women Lawyers on TV Slowly Improving, Panel Says, 76 A.B.A. J. 41 (April 1990).

Diggs, Terry Kay, No way to treat a lawyer; when screen lawyers are women, Hollywood changes the rules, Cal. Law., December 1992, at 48.

Fleck, Patrice, The Silencing of Women in the Hollywood "Feminist" Film: The Accused, 9 Post Script 49 (Summer 1990).

Glass, Diane M., Portia in Primetime: Women Lawyers, Television, and L. A. Law, 2 Yale J. L. & Feminism 371 (1990).

Graham, Louise Everett and Geraldine Maschio, A False Public Sentiment: Narrative and Visual Images of Women Lawyers in Film, 84 Ky. L.J. 1027 (1996).

Jones, Amelia "She Was Bad News": Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman, 25/26 Camera Obscura 297 (1991).

Lucia, Cynthia, Women on Trial: The Female Lawyer in the Hollywood Courtroom, 19 Cineaste 32 (1991).

Mayne, Judith, L. A. Law and Prime-Time Feminism, 10 Discourse 30 (Spring/Summer 1988).

Miller, Mary Jane, Inflecting the Formula: The First Seasons of Street Legal and L.A. Law, in The Beaver Bites Back?: American Popular Culture in Canada 104 (David H. Flaherty and Frank E. Manning eds. 1993).

Miller, Carolyn Lisa, Note: "What a Waste. Beautiful, Sexy Gal. Hell of a Lawyer.": Film and the Female Attorney, 4 Colum. J. Gender & L. 203 (1994).

Seibel, Deborah Starr, Outrageous Lawyers: A Crop of Television Lawyers Takes On the Real World, Chi. Tribune, April 28, 1991, Womanews Section, at 11.

Shapiro, Carole, Women lawyers in celluloid: Why Hollywood skirts the truth, 25 U. Tol. L. Rev. 955 (1994).

Sheffield, Ric S., On film: a social history of women lawyers in popular culture 1930 to 1990, 14 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 73 (Fall 1993).

Weiss, Elaine, Who's missing in this picture? Why movies and television have ignored women lawyers, 16 Barrister 4 (January 1989).