Women Before the Court by Lindsay R Moore

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Women Before the Court by Lindsay R Moore

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This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women’s legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household. -- .

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Women Before the Court by Lindsay R Moore

Women before the court offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women’s legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world. -- .

'this book skilfully ties together the varied experiences of women living and litigating in England and North America across the early modern periodThe book will be of interest to historians of women and legal history in Britain and the Atlantic, and should be commended for bringing together scholars who are prone to focus on particular countries or jurisdictions as case studies.'
Rebecca Mason, Reviews in History

'Women before the Court offers much to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. [...] This book may be
considered required reading for scholars of women, family, property, commerce, and law in seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century Anglo-America. It also provides a valuable comparative overview for scholars working on the same topics in other countries and regions. For its brevity, helpful exposition of many legal complexities, long time frame, and comparative structure, Women before the Court could also make an excellent choice as a classroom text.'
Journal of British Studies

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Lindsay R. Moore teaches European and World History at University of Missouri-Kansas City
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ISBN 13 9781526151711
ISBN 10 1526151715
Title Women Before the Court
Author Lindsay R Moore
Series Gender In History
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2020-12-13
Number of pages 184
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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