| Description |
1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Gender and History Series |
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Routledge Research in Gender and History Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figure -- Tables -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Women and property -- Family, property -- Husband and wife, marriage and property -- The economic rights of widows -- Approaches and themes of the study -- Legislation and female access and use of property -- Inheritance, real property and movables -- Marriage, women and property -- Men, widows, spinsters and assets -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 2: Property ownership and inheritance rights: Indicators of French immigrant women's empowerment process in California, 1880-1940 -- Sources and methods -- French women's property and inheritance rights in France -- French immigrant women in their early stage of settlement in Kern County, California -- French immigrant women as widows -- French immigrant women and property ownership -- Case studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Women, testamentary succession and property in Southern Spain in the 18th century -- Introduction -- Women and wills |
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The Castilian family inheritance transmission system -- Property owners and heirs: widows, spinsters and married women -- Sexual differences in the distribution of goods -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Women, family and family property in pre-industrial urban northern Europe -- Introduction -- Tax records -- Inventories -- Women, law and property in the Nordic countries -- Urban privileges and economic activity -- Stockholm inventories, family and property -- House property inheritance and sales -- The value of a house and the house as a source of income |
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House property and value -- Lodgers and letting -- Inheriting the business -- Widows in enterprise and their households -- Family cooperation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Stockholm municipal archive -- Inventories explored for property division -- Property transaction documents -- Chapter 5: Authority over the whole estate: A study of applications to maintain an undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851 -- The European perspective: "A female head of the household was not an anomaly but a normal part of life" -- Legislation |
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Applications and testimonials from seven Norwegian counties 1814-1851 -- Nordlands County -- Nord-Trøndelag -- Stavanger county -- Agder -- Akershus County -- Kristians County -- "Worthy, thrifty, orderly, industrious and honest": the early 19th-century views on gender and positive personal characteristics -- Legal reforms of inheritance and widowhood: 1851 and 1868 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Printed -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Buying agency?: Antenuptial contracts, marriage, property and female agency in Cape Town, 1924-1961 -- Introduction -- The sources -- The literature |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Why antenuptial contracts? |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003847410 |
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1003847412 |
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