Married women and the law : coverture in England and the common law world /
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : coverture and continuity / Tim Stretton and Krista J. Kesselring
- Discourse on the nature of coverture in the later medieval courtroom / Sara M. Butler
- Coverture and its discontents : legal fictions on and off the early modern English stage / Natasha Korda
- Poor law, coverture, and maintaining relations in King's Bench, 1601-1834 / Kim Kippen
- Coverture and the criminal law in England, 1640-1760 / Marisha Caswell
- Women and property litigation in seventeenth-century England and North America / Lindsay Moore
- The sailor's wife, war finance, and coverture in late seventeenth-century London / Margaret R. Hunt
- Written in her heart : married women's separate allegiance in English law / Barbara J. Todd
- Tapping Reeve, Nathan Dane, and James Kent : three fading federalists on marital duty / Angela Fernandez
- "Concealing him from creditors" : how couples contributed to the passage of the 1870 Married Women's Property Act / Mary Beth Combs
- Coverture and women's agency : informal modes of resistance to legal patriarchy / Danaya C. Wright.
