Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together wit...
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Women before the bar : |b gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 |c Cornelia Hughes Dayton |
260 | |a Chapel Hill : |b University of North Carolina Press, |c c1995. | ||
300 | |a xiv, 382 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-362) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
520 | |a Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. | ||
541 | 0 | |c Gift; |a from Robert Hull; |d 7/31/2014 | |
650 | 0 | |a Women |x Legal status, laws, etc. |z Connecticut |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Courts |z Connecticut |x History. | |
651 | 0 | |a Connecticut |x History |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. |t Women before the bar. |d Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995 |w (OCoLC)604788550 |
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