Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
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.Using the court records of New Have...
ISBN(s)
9780807845615
