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Women Before the Bar : Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798890868848
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women Before the BarLOC classification:
  • KFC3691.W6D39 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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