In the eyes of the law
Subtitle: women, marriage, and property in nineteenth-century New York
By: Norma Basch.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- History.; Marital property -- New York (State) -- History.
Description: "This book ... is an expoloration [sic] of nineteenth-century social and ideological conflict over the appropriate roles for American women in marriage, in the economy, and in the political life of the nation. It is the story of legal changes forged grudgingly, slowly, and in bits and pieces, and of legal continuities sustained in subltle, complex and powerful ways." -- p. 10.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 238-250.
Includes index.