Publication

1995 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

95,500 words, Guess

Page Count

382 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1042439
  • LibraryThing518201

Classifications

  • DDC340/.082
  • LCCKFC3691.W6 D39 1995

Description

Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution.

Subjects

Topics

WomenCourtsHistorySex role340/.082Court recordsWomen's rights

Places

Other Editions

  • Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789University of North Carolina Press1995-01-01

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