"SHE STEDFASTLY ACCUSED HIM IN THE TIME OF HER TRAVAIL": WOMEN'S WORDS AND PATERNITY SUITS IN 18TH-CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS.

Autor: OLBERTSON, KRISTIN A.
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Zdroj: Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender; Fall2012, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p41-73, 33p
Abstrakt: The article focuses on qualitative analysis of paternity court cases and legal procedure such as fornication prosecutions that were presented before Massachusetts General Sessions's courts from 1690 to 1790. It analyses the sampling of two hundred and fifty bastardy proceedings from 1690 to 1790.
Databáze: Supplemental Index