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{{StoryTemplate
|name = Mary Hemmings
|email = mary.hemmings@ucalgary.ca
|role = Librarian
|inst = University of Calgary
|field = legal history, popular culture, legal visual semiotics, law reflected in expressions of popular culture
|selfDescription = Mary Hemmings: Biography
An academic librarian since 1980, Mary Hemmings has worked at Concordia University, McGill University and is currently the Assistant Director of the University of Calgary’s Law Library. Mary’s career includes a three-year role as “librarian-in-residence” at the UofC’s English Department and co-ordinator of the Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction. She is author of a book chapter on the role of women in pulp fiction, and is a co-author of a chapter on libraries and popular culture. She has taught courses in Fundamental Legal Skills and Advanced Legal Skills at UofC’s Faculty of Law. Mary is currently working towards and LLM specializing in legal theory and history at Queen Mary College, Univesity of London.
Research Interest: Interdisciplinary approaches to law and society.University courses in interdisciplinary legal issues are a traditional part of the academic landscape and law is an integral part of society. Understanding its sources and traditions allows us to look critically at how laws are made and cases are decided. Saying “rule of thumb” was politically incorrect in the eighteenth century, and would be today if more people knew it referred to the size of cane allowed to be used to beat a wife. By using primary sources, inquiring students can discover a better understanding of law today. Broad approaches among a primary sources, inquiring students can discover a better understanding of law today. Broad approaches among a variety disciplines and media can engage and fuel life-time inquiry into a fascinating topic.
Current work: Make ‘em Laugh: Images of Law in Eighteenth Century Popular Culture, Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics, Wagner, Anne and Sherwin, Richard, eds., Springer, Accepted for publication, 2011.
Degrees held: (BA History, Concordia) (MLS, McGill) MA Legal History, Calgary) (LLB, Calgary)
|project = Eighteenth century women writers had opinions on the legal status of women in society. They expressed these opinions through literary productions: novels, poems, plays. I seek to analyze the messages that were sent and to whom.
|story = Legal advice to women in the 18th century
|scope = Public opinion, including those of women had become politicized in the eighteenth century. Satirical expressions through the visual medium of cheap and highly circulated prints allowed artists such as Hogarth to comment obliquely on legal issues. Similarly, a nascent women's rights movement was evident. Women writers interseted in strengthening the rights movement could use literaty media to "spread the word".
|when = Eighteenth Century
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