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Married women and the law : coverture in England and the common law world /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stretton, Tim, 1963- (Editor ), Kesselring, K. J. (Krista J.) (Editor ), Butler, Sara M. (Sara Margaret)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : coverture and continuity / Tim Stretton and Krista J. Kesselring
  • Discourse on the nature of coverture in the later medieval courtroom / Sara M. Butler
  • Coverture and its discontents : legal fictions on and off the early modern English stage / Natasha Korda
  • Poor law, coverture, and maintaining relations in King's Bench, 1601-1834 / Kim Kippen
  • Coverture and the criminal law in England, 1640-1760 / Marisha Caswell
  • Women and property litigation in seventeenth-century England and North America / Lindsay Moore
  • The sailor's wife, war finance, and coverture in late seventeenth-century London / Margaret R. Hunt
  • Written in her heart : married women's separate allegiance in English law / Barbara J. Todd
  • Tapping Reeve, Nathan Dane, and James Kent : three fading federalists on marital duty / Angela Fernandez
  • "Concealing him from creditors" : how couples contributed to the passage of the 1870 Married Women's Property Act / Mary Beth Combs
  • Coverture and women's agency : informal modes of resistance to legal patriarchy / Danaya C. Wright.