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Author : Benjamin Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : BL:A0019070637
Author : Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807863770
Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery. Because their husbands' wills and dower law often gave women authority over entire households, widowhood expanded both their domestic mandate and their public profile. They wielded direct power not only over slaves and children but also over white men--particularly sons, overseers, and debtors. After the Revolution, southern white men frequently regarded powerful widows as direct threats to their manhood and thus to the social order. By the antebellum decades, however, these women found support among male slaveholders who resisted the popular claim that all white men were by nature equal, regardless of wealth. Slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most other southerners could only aspire. The ways in which they did--and did not--translate those resources into social, political, and economic power shed new light on the evolution of slaveholding society.
Author : Imogene Wolseley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546471774
Beset by secrets, blackmailing servants, evasion, fervent love and deceit, Sir William Wolseley's relationship with his beautiful young widow neighbour is soon in trouble.Ann Whitby is petite, pretty and charming, attracting men like moths to a light and she knows just what she wants and how to set about getting it. Sir William seems to fulfil her requirements. Still recovering from his late wife's recent demise, Sir William meets the young widow at her devising and is immediately smitten and readily lured into a romance with her that leads to all sorts of intrigues, worthy of a Bronte novel. Be swept along with Sir William into these and the ensuing scandal in this true, but elaborated, mid-eighteenth century historical story.
Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037641
Author : Fiona Barton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143197614
A loving husband or a heartless killer...she'd know, wouldn't she? There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with accusing glares and anonymous harassment. Now her husband is dead, and there's no reason to stay quiet. People want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth--that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything. For the reporter who has secured the exclusive interview, this is the scoop of a lifetime. For the detective who has lived a half-life since he failed to get justice for the victim, it is a chance to get at the truth that has eluded him for so long. For Jean, it's a chance to defend herself, what she knew--and when. This is the tale of a missing child, narrated by the wife of the main suspect, the detective leading the hunt, and the journalist covering the case. It's a brilliantly ominous, psychologically acute portrait of a marriage in crisis--perfect for fans of The Silent Wife and The Girl on the Train.
Author : Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044066098187
Author : Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Real property
ISBN : UCAL:B4160016
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B3500972
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.
Author : Susan H. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135508883
This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the lack of opportunities for women. The economics of widowhood is therefore a significant social problem in less developed countries. The widows' predominant economic plan was to combine rice cultivation with an assortment of microenterprises, a "rice plus" strategy. Many widows were unable to grow enough rice on their land to feed their families. They filled the hunger gap by raising cash through microenterprises to purchase additional rice. Gender work roles were both permeable and persistent, allowing a flexible sexual division of labor in the short run but maintaining traditional roles in the long run. Most widows called on relatives or exchanged transplanting labor for male plowing services, although a few women took up the plow themselves. The study also explores widows' access to key economic resources such as land, credit, and education. War decimated widows' family support networks, including the loss of children, their social security. The study concludes that Cambodia's gender arrangement offered many economic options to widows but also devalued their labor in a cultural structure of inequality. Gender, poverty, and war interacted to reduce widows' financial resources, accounting for their economic vulnerability.
Author : Vivian Bruce Conger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814717110
In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands, who handled all negotiations with the outside world, as well as many domestic interactions. The death of a husband enabled women to transcend this strict gender divide. Yet, as a widow, a woman occupied a third, liminal gender in early America, performing an unusual mix of male and female roles in both public and private life. With shrewd analysis of widows’ wills as well as prescriptive literature, court appearances, newspaper advertisements, and letters, The Widows’ Might explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves responded to their unique role. Using a comparative approach, Vivian Bruce Conger deftly analyzes how widows in colonial Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Maryland navigated their domestic, legal, economic, and community roles in early American society.
Author : Indiana. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103899011
Author : Francis Hilliard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Law
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00134429
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435025770504
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : OSU:32435056191414
Author : Benjamin Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:44783004
