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Livre 33 sur 49: Studies in Legal History

Ågren, Maria

 
9781469614533: Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469614537 ISBN 13 : 9781469614533
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Synopsis

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren 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. A public sphere of influence-including the wife's family and the local community-held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an arcanum domesticum, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women. The advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, Agren explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women. Agren's work enhances our understanding of how societies have conceived of women's contributions to the fundamental institutions of marriage and the family, using as an example a country with far-reaching influence during and after the Enlightenment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Maria Agren is professor of history at Uppsala University and author or editor of four previous books.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469614537
ISBN 13 
9781469614533
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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