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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452028003321

Autore

Warren Joyce W

Titolo

Women, money, and the law [[electronic resource] ] : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / / Joyce W. Warren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

1-58729-650-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

813/.3093553

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

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

Contents; Acknowlegments; Introduction: Fracturing Gender; Chapter One: Marriage and Money; Chapter Two: The Dominant Discours; Chapter Three: Economics and the American Renaissance Woman; Chapter Four: The Woman Plaintiff; Chapter Five: The Economics of Race; Chapter Six: The Woman Defendant; Chapter Seven: Economics and the Law in Fiction; Chapter Eight: The Economics of Divorce; Chapter Nine: Woman's Economic Independence; Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 respect to class and racial differences, and analyzing the ways in which women were involved in economic matters.



Joyce Warren has uncovered a vast, untapped archive of legal documents from the New York Supreme Court that had been expunged from the official record. By exploring hundreds of court cases inv

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797917603321

Autore

McDougall Debra L.

Titolo

Engaging with strangers : love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands / / Debra McDougall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-021-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

306.099593

Soggetti

Love - Solomon Islands

Violence - Solomon Islands

Strangers - Solomon Islands

Intimacy (Psychology)

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

ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names; Introduction - On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land; 1. Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality; 2. Ranongga's Shifting Ground; 3. Incorporating Others in Violent Times; 4. Bringing the Gospel Ashore; 5. No Love? Dilemmas of Possession; 6. Estranging Kin; 7. Losing Passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity; 8. Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in



which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged from one another and from their homes. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.