Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts /

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Did 19th-century American women have money of their own? To answer this question, Women, Money, and the Law looks at the public and private stories of individual women within the context of American culture, assessing how legal and cultural traditions affected women's lives, particularly with r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warren, Joyce W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Money in literature.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Law and literature > History > 19th century.
Economics in literature.
Courts in literature.
Law in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Argent (Monnaie) dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes américains.
Droit et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
Tribunaux dans la littérature.
Droit dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American literature.
American fiction.
American fiction > Women authors.
Law and literature.
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : fracturing gender
  • Marriage and money : trust v. trust
  • The dominance discourse : compulsory dependency
  • Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern
  • The woman plaintiff
  • The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs
  • The woman defendant
  • Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins
  • The economics of divorce
  • Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman
  • Epilogue : into the twenty-first century.

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