Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / Cornelia Hughes Dayton.
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 wit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
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Main Collection
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KFC3691.W6 D39 1995 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |