Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamati

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This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how

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