| Description |
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-362) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Connecticut -- History.
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Courts -- Connecticut -- History.
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Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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| ISBN |
0807822442 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807845612 paperback alkaline paper |
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