Domestic secrets [[electronic resource] ] : women and property in Sweden, 1600-1857 / / Maria Ågren

• Autore: Ågren Maria
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.48501/664
• Soggetto topico: Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Sweden - History; Marital property - Sweden - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Domestic secrets -- The couple between kin, state, & local community -- Subtle changes -- Deteriorating rights & compensating practices : the eighteenth-century transformation -- Bankruptcy & the emergence of a new public sphere -- Drastic changes -- The restricted vision of the law.
• Sommario/riassunto: Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.A public sphere of influence--including the wife's family and the local community--held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights
• Titolo autorizzato: Domestic secrets
• ISBN: 1-4696-0458-2; 0-8078-9845-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780837903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in legal history.