Not All Wives
Subtitle: Women of Colonial Philadelphia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801437021
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Feminism; Marriage; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; Philadelphia (Pa.); Sociology Of Women; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S.; To 1775; History: American; Pennsylvania; Single women; United States - Colonial Period; Women's Studies - History; Women's Studies - General; History; Philadelphia; Social life and customs
First sentence: Amid the turmoil of England's seventeenth-century civil wars, women petitioners to Parliament openly questioned the gender distinctions in English legal practice, which treated men as individuals but women collectively as dependents.