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Women before the court : law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600-1800 /
This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Gender in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 175 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526136343 1526136341 9781526136350 9781526144607 1526144603 152613635X |