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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959226703321

Autore

Warren Joyce W

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

9781587296505

1587296500

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996699682303316

Autore

Häne Barbara <1982-, >

Titolo

"Ein Hilfswerk, das gewaltige Ausmasse angenommen hatte" : Otto H. Heim und die jüdische Flüchtlingshilfe in der Schweiz 1935-1955 / Barbara Häne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zürich, : Chronos, [2023]

Descrizione fisica

1 Online-Ressource (543, 99 Seiten)

Collana

Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in der Schweiz ; Band 20

Disciplina

900

949.4

Soggetti

Flüchtlingshilfe

Juden

Hochschulschrift

Thèses et écrits académiques

Tesi

Schweiz

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia