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Women and family property / edited by Beatrice Moring.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 55.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Women.
- Marital property.
- Prenuptial agreements.
- Decedents' family maintenance.
- Equitable distribution of marital property.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Beatrice Moring joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population in 1996. In 2007 she became associate professor in social and economic history at the University of Helsinki after some years at the University of Essex. Her research interests are women and work, household and economy, inheritance and social stratification. She had many publications, including Widows in European Economy and Society 1600-1920 ( 2017) and Female Migrants, partner choice and socio-economic destiny (2021).
- Contents:
- Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga / Property ownership : an indicator of French immigrant women's empowerment process in California, 1880-1940
- Raquel Tovar Pulido / Women, testamentary succession, and property in Southern Spain in the 18th century
- Beatrice Moring / Women, family, and family property in preindustrial urban Northern Europe
- Hilde Sandvik / Authority over the whole estate-a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851
- Amy Rommelspacher / Ante nuptial contracts, marriage, and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961
- Beatrice Zucca Micheletto / Women and property in pre-unification Italy : a long-term overview of norms and practices
- Lloyd Bonfield / The legacy duty of 1796 : windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th century
- Paulo Teodoro de Matos and Mafalda Lopes / Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the Island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) Portugal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Women and family property
- ISBN:
- 9781003456131
- 1003456138
- 9781003847410
- 1003847412
- 9781003847397
- 1003847390
- Publisher Number:
- 40032241780
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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