Description
In this highly readable study, Mary Shanley analyzes the crucial nineteenth-century changes in married women's status. With the insight of a very acute and thoughtful political theorist, she demonstrates the intimate linkage of the domestic and the public oppression of women. -- Susan Moller Okin
About the Author
Mary Lyndon Shanley is Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Social Science at Vassar College.
Reviews
"Elegantly and clearly written, and based on an impressive mastery of the sources, this book is a very valuable addition to nineteenth-century legal history and the growing corpus of scholarly feminist legal scholarship."--A. W. Brian Simpson, The American Journal of Legal History "Shanley's work is not only a fine feminist tract for our times but also a significant scholarly work."--Lee Holcombe, American Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780691024875
Author Mary Lyndon Shanley
Format Paperback
Page Count 223
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 312g