Women and the Law of Property in Early America

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Wo

Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the

This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Lo

Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.