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  • From godly rules to lawyerly habits: scenes from the New Haven courtroom
  • Toward marginality: women and the litigated economy
  • Divorce: the limits of a puritan remedy
  • Consensual sex: the Eighteenth-Century double standard
  • Rape: the problematics of woman's word
  • Slanderous speech: gender and the fall from social grace
  • Divorce petitions, Connecticut and New Haven colonies, 1639-1710
  • Divorce petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789.