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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unique study with great argument,
By "nuclearmse" (Oxford, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) (Paperback)
Dayton's book argues that, in terms of courtroom cases, women in colonial Connecticut fared better under Puritan legal ideas than later when the laws became more like those in England. She takes the reader through five kinds of cases that involved women to show the changes in the law over time. Her style is easy to read, and she uses anecdotes about specific cases to illustrate her points. A very unique study, unlike any that I have encountered in colonial American history.
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Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 by Cornelia Hughes Dayton (Hardcover - Dec. 1995)
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