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• Title:Married women and the law : coverture in England and the common law world / edited by Tim Stretton, Krista J. Kesselring.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Stretton, Tim, 1963- writer of introduction, editor.
  Kesselring, K. J. (Krista J.), writer of introduction, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD758 .M37 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.--England--History.
  
• Description:xiii, 282 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"The essays in this volume attempt to analyze the nature of married women's legal rights and disabilities prior to the spate of late nineteenth-century reforms. They are the fruits of an interdisciplinary workshop held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that brought together experts in the subject of married women and the law from the fields of history, law literature, economics, and women's studies"--Page x.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773542921 (hardcover)
  9780773542976 (pbk.)
  9780773590144 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Coverture and Continuity / Krista J. Kesselring
  2. Discourse on the Nature of Coverture in the Later Medieval Courtroom / Sara M. Butler
  3. Coverture and Its Discontents: Legal Fictions on and off the Early Modern English Stage / Natasha Korda
  4. Poor Law, Coverture, and Maintaining Relations in King's Bench, 1601
  1834 / Kim Kippen
  5. Coverture and the Criminal Law in England, 1640
  1760 / Marisha Caswell
  6. Women and Property Litigation in Seventeenth-Century England and North America / Lindsay Moore
  7. Sailor's Wife, War Finance, and Coverture in Late Seventeenth-Century London / Margaret R. Hunt
  8. Written in Her Heart: Married Women's Separate Allegiance in English Law / Barbara J. Todd
  9. Tapping Reeve, Nathan Dane, and James Kent: Three Fading Federalists on Marital Unity / Angela Fernandez
  10. "Concealing Him from Creditors": How Couples Contributed to the Passage of the 1870 Married Women's Property Act / Mary Beth Combs
  11. Coverture and Women's Agency: Informal Modes of Resistance to Legal Patriarchy / Danaya C. Wright.