How Long to Read Women Before the Bar

How Long Does it Take to Read Women Before the Bar?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Women Before the Bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. Using the court records of New Haven, which originally had the most Puritan-dominated legal regime of all the colonies, Dayton argues that Puritanism's insistence on godly behavior and communal modes of disputing initially created unusual opportunities for women's voices to be heard within the legal system. But women's presence in the courts declined significantly over time as Puritan beliefs lost their status as the organizing principles of society, as legal practice began to adhere more closely to English patriarchal models, as the economy became commercialized, and as middle-class families developed an ethic of privacy. By demonstrating that the early eighteenth century was a crucial locus of change in law, economy, and gender ideology, Dayton's findings argue for a reconceptualization of women's status in colonial New England and for a new periodization of women's history.

How long is Women Before the Bar?

Women Before the Bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Women Before the Bar Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Women Before the Bar aloud.

What Reading Level is Women Before the Bar?

Women Before the Bar is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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