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The measure of woman : law and female identity in the crown of Aragon /

Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelleher, Marie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Drawing boundaries : women in the legal landscape in the age of Jaume II
  • The power to hold : women and property
  • Crimes of passion : sexual transgression and the legal taxonomy of women
  • Gender and violence.