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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Working women today: a wasted resource -- 2 Pre-industrial woman -- 3 The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Trade unions: men only -- 5 The professions close ranks -- 6 The two world wars: votes and jobs -- 7 Women's attitudes to work -- 8 Work's attitudes to women -- 9 Women and the professions today: too little, too late -- 10 Married women: burying the talents -- 11 Second thoughts set in -- 12 Equality and the law -- Notes to chapters -- Index

American judges sometimes encourage other participants in the legal system to behave like Sherlock Holmes. They are relying on a shared culture that both appreciates a literary figure and recognizes a human capacity to emulate an imaginary creature (here, Sherlock) outside the context in which it was created. Consciously or not, the judges are tapping into classic fandom, but do they think of it that way, and should they?