Women, Family and Community in Colonial America
Subtitle: Two Perspectives
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: January 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780866561914
Subjects: Population & demography; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Women In The U.S.; Sociology; USA; Civil Procedure; History; Dower; Legal status, laws, etc; Legal status, laws, etc.; Married women; Virginia; Wills
First sentence: Historians of colonial women have found legal sources and documents to be a mixed blessing: while commanding and demanding our attention, these records have not yielded up their secrets as easily as we might have wished.