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  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 'So Entirely under His Power and Control': The Status of Wives before Reform
  • 2 'A Life That Is Simply Intolerable': Alimony and the Protection of Wives
  • 3 'To Properly Protect Her Property': Marriage Settlements in Upper Canada
  • 4 'If the Laws Were Made More Salutary': The Act of 1859
  • 5 'The Difference between Women's Rights and Women's Wrongs': The Acts of 1872 and 1873
  • 6 'Many Frauds Not Previously Practicable': Creditors and the Acts of 1859 and 1872
  • 7 'But How Are You to Exempt it from His Control?': Abuse of Trust by Husbands8 'A Thing of Shreds and Patches': The Act of 1884
  • 9 'Lending Aid or Encouragement to Fraudulent and Dishonest Practices': Wives and Their Creditors after 1884
  • 10 'Being Terrified and in Fear of Violence': The Limitations of Separate Property as a Protective Device
  • Conclusions and Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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