Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Published
Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-362) and index
Notes
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