Domestic secrets : women & property in Sweden, 1600-1857 /

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. This book chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion o...

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Main Author: Ågren, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Series:Studies in legal history.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. This book chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
ISBN:9780807898451
0807898457
9781469604589
1469604582
0807833207
9780807833209
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.