Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / / Cornelia Hughes Dayton

• Autore: Dayton Cornelia Hughes
• Pubblicazione: 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; ©1995
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.082
• Soggetto topico: Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Connecticut - History; Courts - Connecticut - History
• Soggetto geografico: Connecticut History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Women before the bar
• ISBN: 0-8078-4561-2; 1-4696-0046-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460608403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia