Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700

Moore, Lindsay R.

doi:10.1353/eam.2016.0017

Early American Studies

2016

DOI: 10.1353/eam.2016.0017

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Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700

Lindsay R. Moore¹

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Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700: An Introduction

Shepard¹,

Stretton²

2019

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This introduction places the articles featured in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies within the context of recent scholarship on late medieval and early modern women and the law. It is designed to highlight the many boundaries that structured women's legal agency in Britain, including the procedural boundaries that filtered their voices through male advisers and officials, the jurisdictional boundaries that shaped litigation strategies, the constraints surrounding women's appearance as witnesses in court, the gendered differentiation of rights determined by primogeniture and marital property law, and the boundaries between legal and extralegal activity. Emphasizing the importance of a nuanced approach, it rejects the construction of women's litigation simply as a form of resistance to patriarchal norms and also urges caution against overestimating or oversimplifying the choices available to women in legal disputes or their latitude to operate as autonomous individuals. Gender intersected in British courts with locality, resources, jurisdiction, social status, and familial, religious, and political affiliations to inform different women's access to justice, which involved negotiations between unequal actors within various constraints and in complex alignment with multiple and often competing interests.

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Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700: An Introduction

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Stretton²

2019

J. Br. Stud.

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Bibliography of Books, Chapters and Journal Articles on Colonialism and Imperialism Published in English in 2016

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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700

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Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700: An Introduction

Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700: An Introduction

Bibliography of Books, Chapters and Journal Articles on Colonialism and Imperialism Published in English in 2016

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