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050	0	4	_aKD758 _b.M377 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aStretton, Tim, _e1
245	1	0	_aMarried Women and the Law : _bCoverture in England and the Common Law World. _c
260			_aMontreal : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press _cDec. 2013.
300			_a1 online resource (328 pages) : _billustrations
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520	8		_aAnnotation _bExplaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen's), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).
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505	0	0	_aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Coverture and Continuity / _rKrista J. Kesselring -- _t2. Discourse on the Nature of Coverture in the Later Medieval Courtroom / _rSara M. Butler -- _t3. Coverture and Its Discontents: Legal Fictions on and off the Early Modern English Stage / _rNatasha Korda -- _t4. Poor Law, Coverture, and Maintaining Relations in King's Bench, 1601 -- _t1834 / _rKim Kippen -- _t5. Coverture and the Criminal Law in England, 1640 -- _t1760 / _rMarisha Caswell -- _t6. Women and Property Litigation in Seventeenth-Century England and North America / _rLindsay Moore -- _t7. The Sailor's Wife, War Finance, and Coverture in Late Seventeenth-Century London / _rMargaret R. Hunt -- _t8. Written in Her Heart: Married Women's Separate Allegiance in English Law / _rBarbara J. Todd -- _t9. Tapping Reeve, Nathan Dane, and James Kent: Three Fading Federalists on Marital Unity / _rAngela Fernandez.
505	0	0	_aNote continued: 10."Concealing Him from Creditors": How Couples Contributed to the Passage of the 1870 Married Women's Property Act / _rMary Beth Combs -- _t11. Coverture and Women's Agency: Informal Modes of Resistance to Legal Patriarchy / _rDanaya C. Wright.
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650		4	_aMarried Women _xLegal Status, Laws, etc.
650		4	_aLaw _zGreat Britain.
650		4	_aLaw _xGender & The Law.
650		4	_aLaw _xGeneral.
650		0	_aMarried women _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zEngland _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aKesselring, Krista J., _e1
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=594598&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell