TY - BOOK AU - Warren,Joyce W. TI - Women, money, and the law: nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts SN - 9781587296505 AV - PS374.M54 W37 2005eb U1 - 813/.3093553 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Money in literature KW - Women and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Women authors KW - Law and literature KW - Economics in literature KW - Courts in literature KW - Law in literature KW - American literature KW - Roman américain KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Argent (Monnaie) dans la littérature KW - Femmes et littérature KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - Littérature américaine KW - Écrits de femmes américains KW - Droit et littérature KW - Économie politique dans la littérature KW - Tribunaux dans la littérature KW - Droit dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - 19th Century KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : fracturing gender -- Marriage and money : trust v. trust -- The dominance discourse : compulsory dependency -- Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern -- The woman plaintiff -- The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs -- The woman defendant -- Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins -- The economics of divorce -- Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman -- Epilogue : into the twenty-first century N2 - Did 19th-century American women have money of their own? To answer this question, Women, Money, and the Law looks at the public and private stories of individual women within the context of American culture, assessing how legal and cultural traditions affected women's lives, particularly with respect to class and racial differences, and analyzing the ways in which women were involved in economic matters. Joyce Warren has uncovered a vast, untapped archive of legal documents from the New York Supreme Court that had been expunged from the official record. By exploring hundreds of court cases inv UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=203079 ER -