Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / Cornelia Hughes Dayton.
1995
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Author
Title
Women before the bar : gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 / Cornelia Hughes Dayton.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Copyright
©1995
Call Number
KFC3691.W6 D39 1995
ISBN
0807845612 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807822442 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807822442 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32589354
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-362) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1
Ch. 1
From Godly Rules to Lawyerly Habits: Scenes from the New Haven Courtroom
15
Ch. 2
Toward Marginality: Women and the Litigated Economy
69
Ch. 3
Divorce: The Limits of a Puritan Remedy
105
Ch. 4
Consensual Sex: The Eighteenth-Century Double Standard
157
Ch. 5
Rape: The Problematics of Woman's Word
231
Ch. 6
Slanderous Speech: Gender and the Fall from Social Grace
285
Appendix 1: Divorce Petitions, Connecticut and New Haven Colonies, 1639-1710
329
Appendix 2: Divorce Petitions, Connecticut General Assembly, 1711-1789
334
Bibliography
337
Index
363