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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Women's Legal Rights"”.
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Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts
<p>This thesis focuses on the evolution of women's legal rights - property, inheritance, and divorce- in colonial Massachusetts between 1630 and 1690. The project explores how and to what extent the legal doctrine of coverture- which severely limited married women’s legal rights- functioned in the …
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Women in the Demotic Legal Landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt (332–30 BC): Participation, Property Rights and Change as Reflected in Documents for Money from Upper Egypt
This thesis explores women’s role in the demotic legal landscape of Ptolemaic Upper Egypt, and, in doing so, it aims to understand better their overall position in society. Social, cultural and economic contexts have shaped women’s lives throughout history. With its longevity and wealth of …