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Dayton Cornelia Hughes |
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Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / / Cornelia Hughes Dayton |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1995 |
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©1995 |
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979-88-908688-4-8 |
0-8078-4561-2 |
1-4696-0046-3 |
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[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Connecticut - History |
Courts - Connecticut - History |
Connecticut History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 From Godly Rules to Lawyerly Habits: Scenes from the New Haven Courtroom; CHAPTER 2 Toward Marginality: Women and the Litigated Economy; CHAPTER 3 Divorce: The Limits of a Puritan Remedy; CHAPTER 4 Consensual Sex: The Eighteenth-Century Double Standard; CHAPTER 5 Rape: The Problematics of Woman's Word; CHAPTER 6 Slanderous Speech: Gender and the Fall from Social Grace; APPENDIX 1 Divorce Petitions, Connecticut and New Haven Colonies, 1639-1710 |
APPENDIX 2 Divorce Petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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