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1002968
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b757338
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| Main Entry
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Warren, Joyce W.
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| Title & Author
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Women, money, and the law : : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts /\ Joyce W. Warren.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (viii, 373 pages)
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| ISBN
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1587296500
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: 9781587296505
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0877459533
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9780877459538
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Courts in literature.
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Economics in literature.
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Law and literature-- History-- 19th century.
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Law in literature.
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Money in literature.
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Argent (Monnaie) dans la littérature.
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Droit dans la littérature.
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Droit et littérature-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Économie politique dans la littérature.
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Écrits de femmes américains.
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Femmes et littérature-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Littérature américaine-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman américain-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Tribunaux dans la littérature.
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American fiction-- Women authors.
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American fiction.
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Courts in literature.
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Economics in literature.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
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Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Money in literature.
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Women and literature.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3093553
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| LC Classification
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PS374.M54W37 2005eb
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