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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955010303321

Autore

Sullivan Kathleen S

Titolo

Constitutional context : women and rights discourse in nineteenth-century America / / Kathleen S. Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9673-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

The Johns Hopkins series in constitutional thought

Disciplina

346.7301/34

Soggetti

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History

Women's rights - United States - History

Married women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History

Constitutional history - United States

Discourse analysis

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 (p. [153]-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Codification of the common law considered -- Abstracting rights -- The married women's property acts : death blow to coverture? -- The married women's property acts : collaborating for coverture -- The domesticity of the domestic relations -- Common law lost.

Sommario/riassunto

A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law.