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Bibliothek | Materialtyp | Regalnummer | Anzahl untergeordneter Datensätze | Regalstandort | Status | Item Holds |
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Suche... Science | Book | 305.420973 V276B, 2001 | 1 | Stacks | Suche... Unknown | Suche... Unavailable |
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Belonging to the World surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. An original work of historical synthesis, the book aims to build bridges between fields long thought to be unbridgeable -- among them, the history of women, American constitutional and legal history, political theory, and law. It delinates the shifting relationships between American law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as it looks beyond the campagin for women's suffrage to broader zones of contest and controversy. Women's stories and voices are used throughout to drive home the extraordinary range and persistence of female rebellion since the 1630s -- when Anne Hutchinson and Ann Hibbens decided to oppose forces of constraint in colonial New England -- to the present era of "post-feminist" retrenchment and backlash. As the narrative documents women's ongoing battles for such rights have been governed differently from men, often out of the state's line of vision, and that much of this difference reflected the survival of a unitary monarchical "head" in the constitutional and moral economy of households. Excellent for use in constitutional law and women's studies classes.
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VanBurkleo (history and law, Wayne State Univ.) presents an engaging history of women and American law that synthesizes the social, political, and legal history of women from the Colonial period through the 1990s. She addresses the changes in women's legal status as well as continued limits to their equality, while providing an original framework for understanding women's legal history. Following the American Revolution, women developed speech communities, such as women's rights conventions, to voice their criticism of oppressive laws and social practices. After the Civil War, women formed suffrage communities, seeking the ballot in order to enact social reform and gain access to the polity. In addition, VanBurkleo posits three main "settlements" in the legal status of women, showing how shifting political ideals caused women, the judiciary, and the government to reconsider women's rights as citizens. The book introduces readers to the legal history of women, but it should also provoke discussion on feminist strategies and the intransigence of American society and the judiciary in extending equal protection under the law to women. This ambitious book will be a valuable addition to history, law, and women's studies collections at all levels. C. Faulkner SUNY College at Geneseo