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Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

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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Main Author: Dayton, Cornelia Hughes.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.
Subjects and Genres:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Connecticut > History.
Courts > Connecticut > History.
Connecticut > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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300 |a xiv, 382 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-362) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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