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Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts

Title
Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / Joyce W. Warren.
Author
Warren, Joyce W.
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2005], ©2005.

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viii, 373 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Did nineteenth-century American women have money of their own? To answer this question, Women, Money, and the Law looks at the public and private stories of individual women within the context of American culture, assessing how legal and cultural traditions affected women's lives, particularly with respect to class and racial differences, and analyzing the ways in which women were involved in economic matters." "Joyce Warren has uncovered a vast, untapped archive of legal documents from the New York Supreme Court that had been expunged from the official record. By exploring hundreds of court cases involving women litigants between 1845 and 1875 - women whose stories had, in effect, been erased from history - and by studying the lives and works of a wide selection of nineteenth-century women writers, Warren has found convincing evidence of women's involvement with money."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Money in literature
  • Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
  • American fiction > History and criticism
  • Law and literature > History > 19th century
  • Economics in literature
  • Courts in literature
  • Law in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-364) and index.
Contents
Introduction : fracturing gender -- 1. Marriage and money : Trust v. Trust -- 2. The dominant discourse : compulsory dependency -- 3. Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern -- 4. The woman plaintiff -- 5. The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs -- 6. The woman defendant -- 7. Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins -- 8. The economics of divorce -- 9. Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman -- Epilogue : into the twenty-first century.
ISBN
0877459533 (cloth : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2005045704
OCLC
  • OCM58422803
  • SCSB-5215799
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Columbia University Libraries