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The Disempowered : women and the law / edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta ; and introduced by Marie Mulvey Roberts.
LIBRA KD734 .D57 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sources of British feminism
- Thoemmes reprints
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain--History.
- Women.
- Feminism--Great Britain--History.
- Feminism.
- Women's rights.
- History.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Great Britain.
- Women's rights--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge/Thoemmes Press, [1995]
- Contents:
- English laws for women in the nineteenth century [1854] / by Caroline Norton
- A brief summary, in plain language, of the most important laws concerning women [1854] / by Barbara Bodichon
- The "non-existence" of women [1855] / by Caroline Norton
- Criminals, idiots, women, and minors : is the classification sound? [1869] / by Frances Power Cobbe.
- Notes:
- Facsimile reprints.
- Contains:
- Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877. English laws for women in the nineteenth century.
- Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891. Brief summary, in plain language, of the most important laws concerning women.
- Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877. Non-existence of women.
- Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904. Criminals, idiots, women, and minors.
- OCLC:
- 46773262
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