Courting Kathleen Hannigan is based on Mary Hutchings Reed’s (Yale Law, ’76) personal knowledge of what goes on behind those beautifully veneered law firm doors. Kathleen Hannigan shrewdly plays the partnership game with her whole heart until she is called to testify in a sex discrimination suit and is forced to choose between her partners and her principles.
Wonderfully intelligent and revealing. In brisk yet thoughtful prose, Mary Hutchings Reed has wrought a juicy tale of a brilliant woman lawyer facing the toughest challenge of her career: another woman lawyer. —Lucia Blinn, author Passing for Normal and Navigating the Night
Courting Kathleen Hannigan gives the reader a chilling but empowering sense of what might have happened to the author’s fellow Yale alumna Hillary Clinton had she followed her classmates into a high-powered law firm—and what is still happening to smart, ambitious women today as they navigate the difficult line between being professionally strong and being labeled unfeminine. A must-read for any woman who has ever tried, aspires to, or is curious about breaking into a male-dominated field. —Lois Barliant, Author, One Day's Tale
In this funny, sensitive novel, Reed laughs with, never at, the mayor, his family and his constituents as they confront the bewildering passions and contradictions of our highly unpredictable times. —Anne Mini, Ph.D., author No Fear and A Family Darkly
I’m so glad that someone has chosen to tell this story because so many women professionals who entered the work place in the ’70s and ’80s will recognize it. I could not resist loving Kitty, but reading about her dilemmas and choices was almost too personal. She made me want to call my women friends at major law firms to make sure they have the support they deserve and that they know that they are not “the crazy ones!” —Jane DeRenzo Pigott, Lawyer and First Female Member of the Executive Committee, Winston & Strawn
by Mary Hutchings Reed
Courting Kathleen Hannigan is based on Mary Hutchings Reed’s (Yale Law, ’76) personal knowledge of what goes on behind those beautifully veneered law firm doors. Kathleen Hannigan shrewdly plays the partnership game with her whole heart until she is called to testify in a sex discrimination suit and is forced to choose between her partners and her principles.
Wonderfully intelligent and revealing. In brisk yet thoughtful prose, Mary Hutchings Reed has wrought a juicy tale of a brilliant woman lawyer facing the toughest challenge of her career: another woman lawyer. —Lucia Blinn, author Passing for Normal and Navigating the Night
Courting Kathleen Hannigan gives the reader a chilling but empowering sense of what might have happened to the author’s fellow Yale alumna Hillary Clinton had she followed her classmates into a high-powered law firm—and what is still happening to smart, ambitious women today as they navigate the difficult line between being professionally strong and being labeled unfeminine. A must-read for any woman who has ever tried, aspires to, or is curious about breaking into a male-dominated field. —Lois Barliant, Author, One Day's Tale
In this funny, sensitive novel, Reed laughs with, never at, the mayor, his family and his constituents as they confront the bewildering passions and contradictions of our highly unpredictable times. —Anne Mini, Ph.D., author No Fear and A Family Darkly
I’m so glad that someone has chosen to tell this story because so many women professionals who entered the work place in the ’70s and ’80s will recognize it. I could not resist loving Kitty, but reading about her dilemmas and choices was almost too personal. She made me want to call my women friends at major law firms to make sure they have the support they deserve and that they know that they are not “the crazy ones!” —Jane DeRenzo Pigott, Lawyer and First Female Member of the Executive Committee, Winston & Strawn
