Women before the court
Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600-1800
This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3635-0
- EAN: 9781526136350
- Produktnummer: 32341678
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 458 KB
Über den Autor
Lindsay R. Moore is a Lecturer in the Social Sciences Division of the College of General Studies at Boston University
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