TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dayton,Cornelia Hughes
TI  - Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
T2  - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series
SN  - 9798890868848
AV  - KFC3691.W6D39 1995 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
KW  - Women-Legal status, laws, etc.-Connecticut-History
KW  - Courts-Connecticut-History
KW  - Connecticut-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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, 1711-1789 -- Bibliography -- 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
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ER  -