Gendered law in American history / Richard Chused, Professor, New Yorkk Law School; Wendy Williams, Professor Emerita, Georgetown University Law Center.
Women and citizenship at the turn of the nineteenth century -- Property reform and the first women's movement -- Divorce in the nineteenth century -- Child custody in the nineteenth century -- Reproduction in the nineteenth century : infanticide, birth control, and abortion -- Gender, race and violence : nineteenth century visions of wives, slaves, and freed persons -- The temperance movement : women's war on whiskey, and the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union -- Women's suffrage after the Civil war : defeat and disarray -- Protective labor legislation at the turn of the twentieth century : special or equal treatment under the law -- The legal uses of history : the Sears case.
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