TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dayton,Cornelia Hughes
TI  - Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 
SN  - 9781469600468
AV  - KFC3691 .W664 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Chapel Hill, London
PB  - Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - History
KW  - Courts
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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