The Legal Status Of Women In Eighteenth Century America
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The Legal Status Of Women In Eighteenth Century America
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Author : Marylynn Salmon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Legal Status Of Women In Eighteenth Century America written by Marylynn Salmon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Women categories.
Women Before The Court
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Author : Lindsay R. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Gender in History
Release Date : 2021-02-16
Women Before The Court written by Lindsay R. Moore and has been published by Gender in History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with History categories.
This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.
The Legal Status Of Women In Eighteenth Century Paris Orl Ans And Normandy
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Author : Ellen Rose Drought
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Legal Status Of Women In Eighteenth Century Paris Orl Ans And Normandy written by Ellen Rose Drought and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
A Woman S Place In Early America
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Author : LeeAnne Gelletly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Woman S Place In Early America written by LeeAnne Gelletly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with United States categories.
Discusses the role of women in eighteenth century society including their legal status, lack of formal education, and their role in the American Revolution.
A Companion To American Women S History
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Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Companion To American Women S History written by Nancy A. Hewitt and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with History categories.
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
Women S Roles In Eighteenth Century America
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Author : Merril D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2010-02-26
Women S Roles In Eighteenth Century America written by Merril D. Smith and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-26 with History categories.
This book offers a look at how the lives of women changed in the era when the United States emerged. Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women of various races, classes, and religions were affected by conditions of the times—war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender—as well as how they influenced the world around them. Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America covers the area of North America that became the United States and follows the transformation of the British colonies into a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine marriage and the family, the law, work, travel, war, religion, and education and the arts. Each chapter combines current research and primary sources to offer authoritative portraits of real lives of the everyday women during this pivotal early era in our history.
American Women S History
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Author : Susan Ware
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
American Women S History written by Susan Ware and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Electronic books categories.
What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.
Women In Eighteenth Century America
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Author : Mary Sumner Benson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Women In Eighteenth Century America written by Mary Sumner Benson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Married Women And The Law
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Author : Tim Stretton
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Married Women And The Law written by Tim Stretton and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Law categories.
Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
Not All Wives
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Author : Karin A. Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Not All Wives written by Karin A. Wulf and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies. In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.