Domestic secrets
Subtitle: women & property in Sweden, 1600-1857
By: Maria Ågren.
Series: Studies in legal history; Studies in legal history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780807833209
Subjects: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Sweden -- History; Marital property -- Sweden -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Domestic secrets; title: The couple between kin, state, & local community; title: Subtle changes; title: Deteriorating rights & compensating practices : the eighteenth-century transformation; title: Bankruptcy & the emergence of a new public sphere; title: Drastic changes; title: The restricted vision of the law.