Women Before the Court
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A01=Lindsay R. Moore
Author_Lindsay R. Moore
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Common law
Ecclesiastical law
England
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Equity law
Law
Maryland
Massachusetts
Patriarchy
South Carolina
Women
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- ISBN 9781526136336
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2019
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Lindsay R. Moore teaches European and World History at University of Missouri-Kansas City
