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Women before the court 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 stories that women related to the courts in
cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation.
Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our
understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.
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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 stories that women related to the courts in cases
ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation.
Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our
understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.
-- .
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