Women Before the Bar : Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.