A Woman's Kingdom : Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861

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In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Marrese, Michelle Lamarche
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women landowners.
Women.
Inheritance and succession.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Femmes proprietaires fonciers > Russie > Histoire.
Successions et heritages > Russie > Histoire.
Femmes > Russie > Histoire.
Women > Russia > History.
Inheritance and succession > Russia > History.
Women landowners > Russia > History.
Russia.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; A WOMAN'S KINGDOM; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Glossary; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE From Maintenance to Entitlement: Women and the Law of Inheritance; TWO The Enigma of Married Women's Control of Property; THREE Marriage and the Practice of Separate Property; FOUR A Desiatina of Her Own: Gender and the Culture of Noble Property; FIVE The Culture of Giving: Women, Men, and Testamentary Behavior; SIX The Pomeshchitsa, Absent and Present: Women and Estate Management; SEVEN Women and the Legal Process; Conclusion.
  • Appendix 1 A Note on Sources: The Krepostnye KnigiAppendix 2 Kinship of Litigants in Inheritance Disputes Involving Noblewomen, 1700-1861; Bibliography; Index.

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