Women, money, and the law [[electronic resource] ] : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / / Joyce W. Warren
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Warren Joyce W
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Women, money, and the law [[electronic resource] ] : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / / Joyce W. Warren
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.3093553 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women, money, and the law |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-650-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452028003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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