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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780837903321

Autore

Ågren Maria

Titolo

Domestic secrets [[electronic resource] ] : women and property in Sweden, 1600-1857 / / Maria Ågren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009

ISBN

1-4696-0458-2

0-8078-9845-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Studies in legal history

Disciplina

346.48501/664

Soggetti

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Sweden - History

Marital property - Sweden - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Domestic secrets -- The couple between kin, state, & local community -- Subtle changes -- Deteriorating rights & compensating practices : the eighteenth-century transformation -- Bankruptcy & the emergence of a new public sphere -- Drastic changes -- The restricted vision of the law.

Sommario/riassunto

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.A public sphere of influence--including the wife's family and the local community--held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights