Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New WorldBloomsbury Academic, 2004 M11 23 - 495 páginas This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the colonies. |
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... Coverture Coverture is defined as the legal status of a woman following marriage that sublimated her legal iden- tity under the authority of her husband . Most early American law was imported from English common law , which severely ...
... coverture . A concerned father might set up a trust for his daughter , which insisted that funds be paid directly to ... coverture were ignored . Studies of businesswomen in New York and Virginia reveal that many married women maintained ...
... coverture could only be stretched so far before women were held account- able for their actions . Coverture implied a passive role for women , but Rachel Wall was clearly no delicate woman who needed a man to protect and provide for her ...
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Addictive Substances | 8 |
African American Women | 14 |
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Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World Dorothy Auchter Mays Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |