WOMEN LAWYERS IN POPULAR CULTURE

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND RESEARCH AIDS

• Christine Alice Corcos, Bar Girls: Women Lawyers on Film and Television: A Selected Bibliography

• Christine Alice Corcos, Sisters in Law

• Women Lawyers: A Bibliography (from the Monroe County Public Library)

• Bookbrowser: Legal Profession

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

• Christine Alice Corcos, Women Lawyers, in Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative   219 (Paul Joseph and Robert Jarvis eds.; 1998).

• Stacy Caplow, Still in the Dark: Disappointing Images of Women Lawyers in the Movies, 20 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 55 (1999).

• Jones, Amelia, "She Was Bad News": Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman, 25/26 Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 297 (January/May 1991).
  
• Macdonald, Andrew and Gina Macdonald, Scott Turow"s Presumed Innocent: Novel and Film--Multifaceted Character Study versus Tailored Courtroom Drama, in It"s a Print!: Detective Fiction from Page to Screen 175 (William Reynolds and Elizabeth A. Trembley eds., 1994).
  
• Meier, Robert H., Getting Away with Murder, 21 Armchair Detective 150 (1988).
  
• Miller, Carolyn Lisa, "What a Waste. Beautiful, Sexy Gal. Hell of a Lawyer": Film and the Female Attorney, 4 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 203 (1994).

Consider also the role of Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.  Although she is not an attorney she plays the part of an advocate, and has become one of the common symbols for a female attorney.

• Benston, Alice N., Portia, the Law and the Tripartite Structure of The Merchant of Venice, 30 Shakespeare Quarterly 367 (1979).

• Boose, Lynda E., The Comic Contract and Portia's Golden Ring, 20 Shakespeare Studies 241 (1988).