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Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage. She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during the decades following the Revolution. The forces of change in colonial and early national law were various, but Salmon believes ideological considerations were just as important as economic ones.
Women did not all fare equally under the law. In this illuminating survey of the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property. She demonstrates the importance of understanding the effects of formal law on women' s lives in order to analyze the wider social context of women's experience.
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August 1, 2016 -
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- ISBN: 9781469620442
- File size: 421 KB
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- ISBN: 9781469620442
- File size: 421 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 1520
- Text Difficulty: 12
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- OverDrive Read
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Languages
- English
Levels
- Lexile® Measure:1520
- Text Difficulty:12
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