| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Volume One -- "From colonial times to the New Deal" / edited by Marlene Stein Wortman -- [Chapter 1] -- The Colonial Revolution, and early federal period -- The concept of Coverture -- The New Testament, Ephesians 5:22-24 -- "A wedding ring fit for the finger" -- A marriage ceremony for slaves in Colonial Massachusetts (1710-1771) -- "The Lawes resolution of women's rights" (1632) -- William Blackstone on the principle of the Unity of Husband and Wife (1765) -- The Fiction of Legal protection -- Property Transaction -- "An act for the enrolling of conveyances and servicing the estates of purchasers" -- Bissett v. Bissett (Maryland, 1674) -- Lloyd v. Taylor (Pennsylvania, 1768) -- Dibble v. Hutton (Connecticut, 1802) -- Neglected wives -- "An act for the relief of the poor" (Pennsylvania, 1771) -- The widow's portion -- Conner v. Shepherd (Massachusetts, 1818) -- Abstract of the will of Jeronimus Rapelye (Flushing, New York, 1754) -- Tapping Reeve on th concept of "Paraphernalia," (1816) -- Escape from Coverture -- Run away or suffer -- Advertisements by Joseph Perkins and Elizabeth Perkins (Pennsylvania, 1767) -- Diary of Abigail Gardner Drew (Nantucket , Rhode Island, circa 1800) -- Marriage Settlements -- Bequest to Sarah Amelia Tart by her father (South Carolina, 1794) -- Marital agreement between Ebenezer Vereen and Catharin McKiver (South Carolina, 1784) -- Marital agreement between Eliza Johnson and Christopher Walten (South Carolina, 1813) -- Barnes v. Hart (Pennsylvania, 1793) -- Fitch v. Branerd (Connecticut, 1805) -- Letters from Lucy Luwell Paradise to Thomas Jefferson (1789) -- Daughters, wards, and servants -- Laws of the colony of New Plymouth on marriage (1658) -- Laws of Virginia on Bastardy (1705) -- Escape from slavery -- Slew v. Whipple (Massachusetts, 1766) -- Culture, Law, and Social Reality -- Womanhood and family government -- The Old Testament, Genesis 3:16 -- Rev. John Robinson, "An essay on marriage" (1628) -- Rev. John Cotton, "A wedding sermon" (1694) -- Legal heritage and innovation -- English common law on marriage and divorce -- Connecticut statute on divorce (1656) -- Virginia statute on racial intermarriage (1705) -- Realities of married life -- Domestic relations cases (Plymouth Colony, 1654 - 1666) -- Poem by Grace Growden Galloway (circa 1759) -- Letter from Elizabeth Graeme (February 27, 1770) -- Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams Smith (November 27, 1786) -- Creating a Republican Society -- Revolutionary Ideology and Suffrage -- Letters of Abigail Adams and John Adams (1776) -- John Adams to John Sullivan (May 1776) -- Poem about an election at Elizabethtown, New Jersey (1797) -- Women's civic role -- Columbia College Commencement Oration, "On female influence" (1795) -- Images of women in primary school readers (1787-1812) -- Family Case Law -- Separation, divorce, and alimony -- Fry v. Derstler (Pennsylvania, 1798) -- Anonymous (South Carolina, 1810) -- Guardianship and child custody -- Burk v. Phips (Connecticut, 1793) -- Commonwealth v. Addicks (Pennsylvania, 1813) -- Vocational training, circa 1700 -- Indenture of Sarah Baker, an American Indian (1699) -- Indenture of Margarett Colly, a White woman (1702) -- Indenture of Maude, a Black woman (1702) -- Married women in the market place -- Tapping Reeve on the rationale for the Common Law of Contracts (1816) -- "An act concerning Feme Sole Traders" (Pennsylvania, 1718) -- "An act concerning Feme Covert Sole Traders" (South Carolina, 1744) -- "An act to regulate the mode in which married women shall become Sole Traders or dealers" (South Carolina, 1823) -- Megrath v. Robertson (South Carolina, 1795) -- Educating women for the Republic -- Quotations from Judith Sargent Murray in The Gleaner (1798) -- The salutatory oration of Mmiss Priscilla Mason to the Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia, May 15, 1793 -- Letters from Eliza Southgate to her cousin Moses Porter (1800-1802) -- A crime against the state -- Dicta of Saint Paul, Corinthians 14:34-35 -- The trail of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the court of Newton, Massachusetts (November 1637) -- [Chapter 2] -- The Age of Jackson, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age (1830-1890) -- The passing of the old order -- Marriage agreement of Robert Dale Owen and Mary Jane Robinson (1832) -- Protest of Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone (1855) -- Critique of marriage agreements in American Law Magazine (April 3, 1844) -- Piecemeal Legal Reform -- Legislative revision of property law -- Report pf the judiciary committee of the New York State Assembly on the petitions to extend and protect the rights of property of married women (1842) -- The Albany Argus on the passage of the New York Property Bill (1848) -- New York married women's property statutes (1848-1887) -- Judicial construction of the statutes -- Switzer v. Valentine (New York, 1854) -- Brooks v. Schwerin (New York, 1873) -- Birkbeck v. Ackeroyd (New York 1878) -- Reconstruction in the South -- The states of freedwomen -- "An act to establish and regulate the domestic relations of persons of color" (South Carolina, 1866) -- Freedwomen's Labor Contracts --Agreement between E.J. Bowen and Gorge Brown (Mississippi, 1866) -- Agreement between James Hays and Squire Brooks (Mississippi, 1867) -- Agreement between B. P. Perry and Charles Boocher (Mississippi, 1867) -- Woman's Place -- Mrs. A. J. Graves on women's sphere (1841) -- "Westward Ho," for husbands -- "Westward Ho," for wives -- Mary Ballou on life in a California mining camp (1852) -- Hair v. Hair (South Carolina, 1858) -- Reproductive Freedom -- Too many children -- Letters form an anonymous lady to Henry Wright (circa 1845) -- Letter to a member of the Oneida Community (1872) -- Family planning advertisements -- Dr. Cameron's patent family regulator or, wife's protector (1847) -- Madame Costello's medical remedies (1846) -- Madame Restell's pills (1870) -- The criminalization of birth control -- Commonwealth v. Bangs (Massachusetts, 1812) -- Mills v. Commonwealth (Pennsylvania, 1850) -- Connecticut statute on abortion (1812) -- Illinois statute on abortion (1827) -- Federal statute on contraception and abortion: The Comstock Act (1873) -- The Women's Rights Movement -- Women's rage -- Iowa folksong: "Single Girl" -- Recollection from a rural District in Upstate New York (before 1848) -- Recollection from a New England Mill Town (1830s) -- Seneca Falls -- The declaration of sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (1848) -- Expanding the grounds for divorce -- "An act in regard to divorces" (New York, 1861) -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on behalf of the Divorce Bill (1861) -- Horace Greeley on freedom of divorce (1852-1853) -- Trends in family law -- Divorce and alimony -- What constitutes legal cruelty? (Alabama Supreme Court, 1870) -- Sarah Prince v. George Prince (South Carolina, 1845) -- Custody and guardianship -- People ex rel. Barry v. Mercein (New York, 1842) -- McKim v. McKim (Rhode Island, 1879) -- California Law on guardianship (1870) -- Equality as the best form of protection -- The political strategy for suffrage -- Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the state legislature (New York, 1854) -- Sojourner Truth: "Keeping the thing going while things are stirring" (1867) -- Frances E. Willard: The home protection manual (1879) -- The male response to the female suffrage -- "The woman's rights convention - The last act of the drama" (New York Herald, September 12, 1852) -- Orestes A. Brownson on "The Woman Question" (1869) -- The litigation strategy for suffrage -- United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873) -- Minor v. Happersett, U.S. Supreme Court (1875) -- Myra Bradwell on "An act to grant to the women of Wyoming territory the right of suffrage and to hold office" -- Jury Service -- Grace Raymond Hebard on "The first Woman Jury" (Wyoming Territory, 1870) -- Rosencrantz v. Territory of Washington (1884) -- Opportunity and reality in urban America -- The factory -- "Yankee girls troop to the mills," by Harriet Robinson (1830s) -- Investigation of labor conditions, Massachusetts House of Representatives (March 12, 1845) -- Prostitution -- Survey of the extent and causes of prostitution by Dr. |
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William Sanger (1858) -- California senate investigation of Chinese immigrants (1876) -- Chinese Labor Contract (1873) -- Access to privilege and authority -- Educational barriers -- Lucy Stone's speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention (1855) -- Stephen Smith, M.D., on the admission of the first woman to a male medical college (1847) -- George Palmer Putnam to Mary Corinna Putnam (February 13, 1861) -- New cultural barriers -- Carl Vogt, Lectures on man, his place in creation, and in the history of the earth (1864) -- Dr. Edward H. Clarke on the physical and social ramification of female higher education (1873) -- Entering the legal profession -- Occupational freedom and the state courts -- In re Bradwell, (Illinois, 1869) -- In re Goodell (Wisconsin, 1875) |
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Occupational freedom and the U.S. Supreme Court -- The Fourteenth Amendment, United States Constitution (1868) -- Argument of the Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter before the U.S. Supreme Court, January 18, 1872, upon the application of Myra Bradwell to be admitted to the Bar -- Bradwell v. Illinois, U.S. Supreme Court (1873) -- Myra Bradwell, "The XIVth Amendment and our case" (1873) -- Belva Lockwood, "My efforts to become a lawyer" (1888) -- In re Lockwood, U.S. Supreme Court (1893) - Insanity -- The great trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Packard (1864) -- Infanticide -- Report to the Working Woman's Association on the case of Hester Vaughan (1868) -- Petition to the Governor of Pennsylvania in behalf of Hester Vaughan (1868) -- Differential treatment of men and women -- Massachusetts Statutes on the crime of drunkenness (1879-1880) -- Woman's nature -- Changing models of womanhood -- William I. Thomas, "On a difference in the metabolism of the sexes" (1897) -- G. Stanley Hall on Physiology and Adolescent Education (1904) -- Popular song: "Mother, Queen of home" (1899) -- Edward O'Donnell on "Women as bread winners - the error of the Age" (1897) -- Margaret Sanger on happiness in marriage (1926) -- Dr. Douglas A. Thorn on child management (1903) -- The new feminist perspective -- Helen Thompson (Woolley) on the mental traits of men and women (1903) -- Marriage and Divorce -- George Elliott Howard, "is the freer granting of divorce an evil?" (1908) -- Public policy and family welfare -- Mothers' Aid -- Report of the commission on relief for widowed mothers (New York, 1914) -- Emma O. Lundberg, "Aid to mothers with dependant children" (1921) -- U.S. Children's Bureau -- Report on Mothers' Aid (1931) -- Family Planning -- My fight for birth control, by Margaret Sanger (1912-1916) -- Helen G. Carpenter v. William S. Dever (Cook County, Illinois, 1923) -- Congressional hearings on the Cummins-Vaile Bill (1924) -- Foster v. State (Wisconsin, 1923) -- Suffrage and Jury Service -- Flyer, New York Suffrage Party (1917) -- "Senators vs. Working Women," by Mollie Schepps (1912) -- The Nineteenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution (1920) -- "Jury service for women" by Jennie Loitman Barron -- From protection to restriction -- Maximum-hour legislation -- Lochner v. New York, U.S. Supreme Court (1905) -- Muller v. Oregon, U.S. Supreme Court (1908) -- Night-work legislation -- Radice v. People of the State of New York, U.S. Supreme Court (1924) -- Minimum-wage legislation -- Report of the Senate vice committee, Illinois General Assembly (1916) -- Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court (1923) -- West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, U.S. Supreme Court (1937) -- Juvenile Justice -- Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbot on adolescent male and female delinquent behavior -- The juvenile court in action (Chicago, 1899-1909) -- Reform School Parole: The case histories of Frank and Nellie (Massachusetts, 1923) -- Sex and Mental Retardation -- Abstracts of case records from the Wisconsin home for the feeble-minded (1906-1920) -- Second Annual report of the Trustees of the New York State Custodial Asylum for the feeble-minded (1904) -- Letter from Frank P. Norbury, Psychiatrist, to the Illinois General Assembly (1916) -- Seventy-Five Years after Seneca Falls -- A league of women voters survey of the legal status of women (1924) -- Debate on the ERA: Inez Hayes Irwin, "Why the Woman's Party is for it" (1924)-- Debate on the ERA: Florence Kelley, "Why other women's groups oppose the amendment (1924) -- |
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Volume Two -- "The struggle toward equality from the New Deal to the present" / Judith A. Baer. [table of content will be available in the 3rd edition , 2002 ___sam] |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Wortman, Marlene Stein.
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Baer, Judith A.
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| ISBN |
0841907536 v. 1 paperback |
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0841907528 v. 1 hardcover |
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0841909202 v. 2 hardcover acid-free paper |
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0841909210 v. 2 paperback acid-free paper |
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