| Description |
376 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm. |
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American beginnings, 1500-1900 |
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American beginnings, 1500-1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "If I am your wife, I am not your slave" -- The trials of Christopher and Elizabeth Lawson : an introduction to Post-Reformation debates about marriage -- Submit or starve : Manby v. Scott and the making of a precedent -- The runaway press -- Marriage, slavery, and Anglo-Imperial jurisdictional politics -- A matter of credit : husbands' claims -- "In justice to my character" : wives' replies -- Wives not slaves -- Rethinking the revolutionary road to divorce -- Epilogue: "The rigour of the old rule." |
| Summary |
"Is marriage a privilege or a right? A sacrament or a contract? Is it a public or a private matter? Where does ultimate jurisdiction over it lie? And when a marriage goes wrong, how do we adjudicate marital disputes-particularly in the usual circumstance, where men and women do not have equal access to power, justice, or even voice? These questions have long been with us because they defy easy, concrete answers. Kirsten Sword here reveals that contestation over such questions in early America drove debates over the roles and rights not only of women but of all unfree people. Sword shows how and why gendered hierarchies change-and why, frustratingly, they don't"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Marriage law -- United States -- History.
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Equality before the law -- United States -- History.
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Equality -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History.
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Patriarchy -- United States -- History.
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Male domination (Social structure) -- United States -- History.
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Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
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Equality before the law. (OCoLC)fst00914477
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Male domination (Social structure) (OCoLC)fst01741391
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Marriage law. (OCoLC)fst01010611
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Patriarchy. (OCoLC)fst01055082
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Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst01114369
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780226757483 hardcover |
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022675748X hardcover |
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9780226757513 electronic book |
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