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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by The University of North Carolina Press, (c)1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
  • computer
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  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469600468
Other title:
  • Gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 [Other title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KFC3691 .W664 1995
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Contents:
Toward marginality: women and the litigated economy -- Divorce: the limits of a puritan remedy -- Consensual sex: the Eighteenth-Century double standard -- Rape: the problematics of woman's word -- Slanderous speech: gender and the fall from social grace -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut and New Haven colonies, 1639-1710 -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

From godly rules to lawyerly habits: scenes from the New Haven courtroom -- Toward marginality: women and the litigated economy -- Divorce: the limits of a puritan remedy -- Consensual sex: the Eighteenth-Century double standard -- Rape: the problematics of woman's word -- Slanderous speech: gender and the fall from social grace -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut and New Haven colonies, 1639-1710 -- Divorce petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789.

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