ABSTRACT Legal biography remains, with some exceptions, strongly influenced by Victorian biographical models, with a focus on ‘great’ men (since women could not become lawyers before 1920, and there have been few ‘great’ women lawyers) and their public achievements and contributions to law, and with little attention given to their private lives or their attitudes to women’s subordination in law. Feminist legal historians have widened the net to include women pioneers working in and with law before 1920. But feminist legal biography is not just about uncovering the lost lives of women; rather, it focuses on gender – the relationship between the sexes – and recognizes that biographies of men require consideration of the ways in which men maintained their dominant position in law and society, as much by the private support of women at home as by excluding and marginalizing women professionally. As for biographies of women, recent enthusiasm to recover their stories has suffered from a tendency to mould them into heroines or role models, again on the Victorian model. Feminist legal biographers of women need to avoid the perils of over-identification with their subjects (manifested by anachronistic familiarity and historical inaccuracy) and the siren call of anecdote and myth.

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女权主义法律传记：所有法律生活故事的典范

摘要 除了一些例外，法律传记仍然受到维多利亚时代传记模型的强烈影响，重点关注“伟大的”男性（因为女性在 1920 年之前无法成为律师，而且“伟大的”女律师很少）以及他们的公共成就和对法律的贡献，很少关注她们的私生活或她们对妇女在法律上的从属地位的态度。女权主义法律史学家扩大了范围，将 1920 年之前从事法律工作的女性先驱包括在内。但女权主义法律传记不仅仅是揭露女性失去的生命；相反，它侧重于性别——两性之间的关系——并认识到男性传记需要考虑男性在法律和社会中保持主导地位的方式，在家中对妇女的私人支持，以及在职业上排斥和边缘化妇女。至于女性传记，最近恢复她们故事的热情受到了将她们塑造成女主人公或榜样的倾向，同样是维多利亚时代的模式。女性的女权主义法律传记作者需要避免过度认同她们的主题（表现为不合时宜的熟悉和历史不准确）以及轶事和神话的警报声。