Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts / Joyce W. Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Joyce W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Money in literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Law and literature--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

Economics in literature.

Courts in literature.

Law in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Did 19th-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 inv

Contents:

Contents; Acknowlegments; Introduction: Fracturing Gender; Chapter One: Marriage and Money; Chapter Two: The Dominant Discours; Chapter Three: Economics and the American Renaissance Woman; Chapter Four: The Woman Plaintiff; Chapter Five: The Economics of Race; Chapter Six: The Woman Defendant; Chapter Seven: Economics and the Law in Fiction; Chapter Eight: The Economics of Divorce; Chapter Nine: Woman's Economic Independence; Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587296505

1587296500

OCLC:

182662495