Belonging to the World
Subtitle: Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture (Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780195069723
First sentence: Historians cannot say with certainty whether Mistress Ann Hutchinson and Ann Hibbens knew one another, but the odds are good that they did.
Description: Surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America. This book delineates the shifting relationships between American law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as Americans tried to implement republican constitutions in an emerging capitalist society.