Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dayton, Cornelia Hughes (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Series:Legal classics library.
UNC Press law publications.
Women and the law.
Subjects:
1600-1775
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Connecticut > History.
Courts > Connecticut > History.
Femmes > Droit > Connecticut > Histoire.
Tribunaux > Connecticut > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Courts
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Criminaliteit.
Vrouwen.
Puritanisme.
Connecticut > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Connecticut > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Connecticut
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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