Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 by Cornelia Hughes Dayton

Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

Cornelia Hughes Dayton

400 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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. Weavi...

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