Research Catalog

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.

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Details

Description

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."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1800-1900
• American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Money in literature
• Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
• American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Law and literature > History > 19th century
• Economics in literature
• Courts in literature
• Law in literature
• American literature > History and criticism
• American literature > Women authors
• American literature > Women authors
• American literature
• American fiction
• American fiction > Women authors
• Courts in literature
• Economics in literature
• Law and literature
• Law in literature
• Money in literature
• Women and literature
• Geld Motiv
• Geschlechterverhältnis
• Literatur
• Rechtsprechung
• American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
• American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Law and literature > History > 19th century
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-364) and index.

Contents

Introduction : fracturing gender -- Marriage and money : trust v. trust -- The dominance discourse : compulsory dependency -- Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern -- The woman plaintiff -- The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs -- The woman defendant -- Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins -- The economics of divorce -- Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman -- Epilogue : into the twenty-first century.

ISBN

• 0877459533
• 9780877459538

LCCN

2005045704

OCLC

• ocm58422803
• 58422803
• SCSB-1377479

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library