A Woman's Kingdom
Subtitle: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801439117
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Political control & freedoms; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; History - General History; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Women's Studies - History; History; Gender & the Law; Inheritance and succession; Women; Women landowners
First sentence: The story of the Russian noblewoman, as told in literature and historical narrative, has been one of paradox.
Description: "In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753.

Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.