Dayton, Cornelia Hughes, <br/><br/>
Women before the bar :  gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / 
 Gender,  law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 
Cornelia Hughes Dayton. 
 - Chapel Hill ;  London :  Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)1995. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469600468 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Connecticut<br/>Courts--History.--Connecticut
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KFC3691  / .W664 1995