Women and family property [electronic resource] / edited by Beatrice Moring.

"This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and there...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Moring, Beatrice (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:	Routledge research in gender and history
Subjects:	Women > Legal status, laws, etc. Marital property. Prenuptial agreements. Decedents' family maintenance. Equitable distribution of marital property. Inheritance and succession.
Online Access:	Taylor & Francis Complete 2024 eBooks: 2024 (Taylor & Francis eBooks) Taylor & Francis eBooks (Complete Collection): 2024 (Taylor & Francis eBooks)
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga / Property ownership : an indicator of French immigrant women's empowerment process in California, 1880-1940
Raquel Tovar Pulido / Women, testamentary succession, and property in Southern Spain in the 18th century
Beatrice Moring / Women, family, and family property in preindustrial urban Northern Europe
Hilde Sandvik / Authority over the whole estate-a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851
Amy Rommelspacher / Ante nuptial contracts, marriage, and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto / Women and property in pre-unification Italy : a long-term overview of norms and practices
Lloyd Bonfield / The legacy duty of 1796 : windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th century
Paulo Teodoro de Matos and Mafalda Lopes / Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the Island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) Portugal.